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City mourns LGBT director Gloria Casarez

By Jen Colletta and Sarah Blazucki “I pledge to represent the community with authenticity, integrity and respect.”

— Gloria Casarez, in her 2008 speech accepting the post of Philadelphia’s Director of LGBT Affairs The rainbow flag outside Philadelphia City Hall continues to fly at half-staff in honor of Gloria Casarez.

The city’s director of LGBT affairs died Oct. 19, more than five years after she was diagnosed with cancer.

Reaction to Casarez’s death has been overflowing in the community and the city this week, with many remembering not just the depth and breadth of Casarez’s accomplishments in advancing LGBT equality, but also the spirit and energy that inspired her work.

“Gloria was a great friend to a lot of folks,” Mayor Michael Nutter told PGN. “She was tremendously kind and thoughtful and had a great spirit about her.”

Her wife, Tricia Dressel, said Casarez’s strength and determination over the last few years exemplified the fortitude with which she exhibited each day.

“She was a warrior to the end. She lived and died the way she wanted to — on her own terms.”

City leader Nutter appointed Casarez as Philadelphia’s first director of LGBT affairs in 2008. In that capacity, she oversaw the city’s work to ensure full LGBT inclusion in all facets of city government, bridged gaps between the LGBT community and city leaders and represented Philadelphia and its LGBT efforts on local and national levels.

The mayor said Casarez far exceeded the duties of her position.

“She didn’t just limit herself to the work I asked her to come here to do. She was active in a variety of areas of government. She knew everybody, engaged with everybody,” Nutter said. “She was a highly respected and valued member among our top leaders here and set a very, very high bar and standard for all public servants: those who serve, those who give, those who do. She elevated issues of diversity and made sure there were a number of different voices around the table. She insisted on that.”

Casarez sought to include members from across the community in her work, telling PGN in 2008 that it was “entirely within everything I’ve ever done to have as many people involved in something as possible. I don’t try to run things all by myself; it’s not in my character.”

She led the establishment of the Mayor’s Advisory Board on LGBT Affairs, a collec-

tion of LGBT and ally individuals from an array of industries, to represent the needs of the community.

“She was just really remarkable in that she always had her finger on the pulse of what was happening in the community,” said Elicia Gonzales, executive director of GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization. “She would regularly check in with all of us in different regards. She had a way of making sure she had a bird’seye view of the city, really getting into the nitty-gritty details of things. She knew the business sector, tourism, providers, just what was happening with everyday people.

She was meticulous in a sense in knowing

when something was awry, like a detective, and then figuring out a way to advocate for that at the city level.”

Among her most visible accomplishments was the raising of the rainbow flag each October outside City Hall, which she conceived of and spearheaded. Casarez spoke PAGe 14 at the fifth flag-raising

Hate-crimes bill moves forward in Philly, stalls in PA Conservative bishops not

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com

A bill that would instate a penalty for offenders who commit hate crimes against LGBT individuals in Philadelphia has moved one step closer towards becoming law in the city.

The Public Safety Committee of Philadelphia City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed Bill 140720, which adds a new chapter to the Philadelphia Code to provide for additional penalties for criminal conduct motivated by hatred regarding sexual orientation, gender identity and disabilities.

The bill, sponsored by Councilmembers Blondell Reynolds-Brown and Jim Kenney, was scheduled to receive a first reading before the full Council on Thursday. Then, the public will be given a week to submit comments before a second reading will occur and a final vote can be taken.

Given that the bill passed from the committee with a favorable recommendation, Reynolds-Brown said

she was optimistic her colleagues will approve the legislation.

“I feel positive it will pass in every way — absolutely,” she said. “The state has run into a brick wall. Given the testimony we have heard today, and the very insightful questions that were raised, I am confident that it will move to the mayor’s desk and become law.”

The Philadelphia Police Department fully supports the intent of the bill, but noted that it could potentially raise issues of double jeopardy if a defendant were tried for two crimes under separate jurisdictions, said PPD Capt. James Healy.

For example, “if an assault charge was filed under state law, it might preclude the filing of a city hatecrimes charge,” Healy said.

But he assured the committee that the PPD and the District Attorney’s Office would “cross their Ts and make sure defendants would not get off on a technicality.”

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ready to ‘welcome’ gays

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com The final document issued from this year’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family contained language that was significantly colder in tone than the preliminary statement released last week.

The initial report shook the Catholic community and the world by offering — for the first time in the Vatican’s history — a somewhat-hospitable, welcoming attitude towards LGBT Catholics and same-sex couples.

“Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer Christians: Are

we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities?” read the statement under the passage titled, “Welcoming Homosexual Persons.”

While hailed by many as a victory for LGBT Catholics, conservative bishops quickly drew a hard line against Pope Francis’ progressive statements by watering down the language in the final version released last weekend at the end of the synod.

The revised paragraph referred to homosexuality as a “problem” that Catholic families have to conPAGe 5 front and stated,

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Oct. 6-12. Information is courtesy of Sixth District Capt. Brian Korn; Stacy Irving, senior director, Crime Prevention Service; Center City District; the Police Liaison Committee and Midtown Village Merchants Association. To report crime tips, visit www. phillypolice.com or call 215-686-TIPS (8477).

Follow the Sixth District on Twitter @PPDBrianKorn.

INCIDENTS — On Oct. 6, a female stole items from Nest, 1301 Locust St. She was described as black and in her 50s, 5-foot-8, wearing black fulllength Muslim garb and carrying a blue Gap bag.

— On Oct. 9, a male stole items from Mitchell & Ness, 1201 Chestnut St., and fled north on 13th Street. The suspect was described as black, 18-20, 6 feet, thin, wearing a threequarter-length jacket with a hoodie underneath.

— Between 9 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Oct. 9, someone entered an apartment in the 1300 block of Walnut Street that was left unlocked and stole jewelry. Sixth District Officer Solis was unable to lift fingerprints.

— At 7:20 a.m. Oct. 12, a man entered his apartment building in the 1300 block of Spruce Street and noticed a male following him. The male asked for money and the resident refused, at which time the male brandished a knife and demanded his wallet. The victim yelled for help and the male walked out of the building. The suspect was described as white and in his 20s, 5-foot-8, 180 pounds, with light brown hair, wearing a gray hoodie, dark pants and a black hat.

— At 5:45 p.m. Oct. 12, a patron was dining outdoors at Mixto, 1141 Pine St., and placed money on the table for the bill when a female on a bicycle rode past and stole the money, fleeing north on Hutchinson Street. The suspect was described as short, white and in her 20s, with a medium build and short blond hair, wearing a white T-shirt and riding a black mountain bike.

— At 8:20 p.m. Oct. 12, a patron dining outdoors at Varga, 941 Spruce St., placed money on the table for the bill and a male stole it and fled north on 10th Street. The suspect was described as 25 years old and black, 5-foot10, 150 pounds and wearing a navy blue jacket and jeans.

— At 11:45 p.m. Oct. 12, a man punched another man in the face during an argument outside 1123 Walnut St., causing a laceration.

The suspect was described as black and in his 20s, 5-foot-10, with a medium complexion, wearing glasses, a black hoodie and jean shorts.

— There were two thefts from parked vehicles from Oct. 6-12: outside 1212 Spruce St. and 306 S. Camac St. — There were seven thefts of bicycles reported from Oct.6-12: outside 800 Spruce St., 258 S. 11th St., 321 S. Broad St., 1329 Lombard St., 1000 Clinton St., 1300 Chestnut St. and 1100 Market St. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — On Oct. 7, Sixth District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Grant set up surveillance in the area of Juniper and Chancellor streets and at 11:45 a.m. they observed a male stealing an unattended bicycle from outside 208 S. Juniper St. The 20-year-old suspect with a South Philadelphia address was charged with theft.

— At 1:20 a.m. Oct. 9, Sixth District Officer Loggia stopped a vehicle for traffic violations in the 300 block of South 11th Street and found that the operator was intoxicated. The 34-year-old suspect with a Wilmington, Del., address was charged with DUI. — On Oct. 9, Sixth District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Grant set up surveillance in the area of 13th and Spruce streets, and at 12:45 p.m., they observed a man stealing an unattended bicycle from outside 261 S. 13th St. The 45-year-old suspect with a Southwest Philadelphia address was charged with theft.

— At 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9, a resident left two bicycles in the lobby of an apartment building in the 900 block of Clinton Street, and discovered them missing at 1 p.m. Oct. 10. The door to the secured lobby was found to have been damaged, as someone attempted to gain access. Sixth District Officer Duncan viewed security video and identified the suspect from previous contacts. At 2 p.m. Oct. 12, Sixth District Officers Keller and Rossi saw the suspect in the 1300 block of Lombard Street and took him into custody. The 37-yearold suspect with a Northeast Philadelphia address was charged with burglary and related offenses.

— At 7:35 p.m. Oct. 9, Sixth District Officers Calhoun and Kovach arrested a male outside 201 S. 13th St. who was wanted for failure to appear in court. The 48-year-old homeless suspect was charged with contempt of court.

— At 9:15 p.m. Oct. 9, a driver left keys inside an unlocked Hyundai outside 1300 Sansom St. and it was stolen. On Oct. 10, 25th District police stopped the stolen vehicle in the 3500 block of North Fifth Street. The 20-year-old operator with a North Philadelphia address was charged with auto theft and related offenses.

— At 1 a.m. Oct. 11, a patron reported an

iPhone stolen from inside Woody’s, 202 S. 13th St. Sixth District Officers Cifelli and Macchione tracked the phone to Cleveland Street in North Philadelphia, activated an alert tone and found a male in possession of the stolen phone. The 35-year-old suspect with a North Philadelphia address was charged with theft.

SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 2:35 a.m. Oct. 6, Sixth District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 1228 Chancellor St. — At 11:50 p.m. Oct. 7, Sixth District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 1300 Locust St. — On Oct. 8, Center City District officers issued citations for summary offenses at 10:20 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. outside 101 S. Broad St. Sixth District officers issued citations at 10:10 a.m. outside 1300 Locust St., 9:35 p.m. outside 1300 Spruce St. and 11:55 p.m. outside 121 S. 13th St. — On Oct. 9, Sixth District officers issued two citations for summary offenses at 10:20 p.m. outside 320 S. 13th St. and two citations for summary offenses at 11:50 p.m. outside 100 S. 13th St. — At 10:55 p.m. Oct. 10, Sixth District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 231 S. 13th St. — On Oct. 11, Sixth District officers issued citations for summary offenses at 12:55 a.m. outside 139 S. 13th St., 2:15 a.m. outside 1220 Chancellor St., 11:40 a.m. outside 200 S. Watts St. and 9:45 p.m. outside 300 S. 13th St. — On Oct. 12, Sixth District officers issued citations for summary offenses at 2:15 a.m. outside 1220 Chancellor St., 2:20 a.m. outside 200 S. Camac St. and 8:45 a.m. outside 1324 Walnut St. n

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The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office last week released a document pertaining to the Nizah Morris case, and admitted it’s redacted.

It’s the first time since Morris was killed almost 12 years ago that the agency has publicly admitted to releasing a redacted document in the case.

The agency hasn’t specified how much of the document is redacted, nor given a reason for the redaction.

The document in question was initially released by the city’s Police Advisory Commission in 2007. It’s a computer-assisted dispatch record for a vehicle stop by Officer Elizabeth Skala, who was involved in the Morris incident.

The PAC wasn’t able to determine if the document is redacted, though PAC members noted it appears to be missing key information, including police-tracking numbers.

In June, PGN requested from the D.A.’s Office all complete dispatch records for Skala’s vehicle stop.

The D.A.’s Office indicated the PAC document is a complete dispatch record for Skala’s vehicle stop, and on Oct. 1, the state Office of Open Records ordered the agency to release it.

It still remains possible the D.A.’s Office has unredacted dispatch records for Skala’s vehicle stop.

The agency hasn’t yet stated under penalty of perjury that it has looked specifically for unredacted dispatch records pertaining to Skala’s vehicle stop and couldn’t find any.

Over the years, the D.A.’s Office has given conflicting statements about dispatch records in the Morris case.

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“People with homosexual tendencies must be welcomed with respect and delicacy.”

The passage title now reads, “Providing for Homosexuals,” with the word “welcoming” now absent.

The first version said same-sex unions could often constitute a “precious support in the life of the partners,” while the new one says gay unions often constitute “valuable support in the life of these persons.”

It also repeated the church teaching that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

M i c h a e l Vi o l a , p r e s i d e n t o f t h e Philadelphia chapter of DignityUSA, said the final report “was one step forward and three steps back.”

“The fact that the language was reworded in legal church doctrines at the synod implies this was intentional — not just a poor translation of the original Italian text. It is a slap in the face to LGBT Catholics,” Viola said.

The LGBT-affirming paragraphs failed to receive the needed two-thirds vote by the bishops.

However, the document remains a talking point going into the next synod, a year from

said: “[A]fter a reasonable search, the District Attorney’s Office is not in possession of any [computer-assisted dispatch] records related to the death of Nizah Morris.”

The agency sent that email even though it had the PAC document that it now admits is redacted and pertains to Skala’s vehicle stop.

Skala initiated the vehicle stop during the early-morning hours of Dec. 22, 2002, while she was still assigned to handle Morris, who was extremely inebriated.

Shortly before the vehicle stop, Skala gave Morris a Center City “courtesy ride.”

Minutes after the ride, the transwoman was found with blunt-force trauma to her head, Morris died two days later, and her homicide remains unsolved.

Skala ticketed a motorist at 13th and Filbert streets rather than responding to Morris at 16th and Walnut streets, where she was in critical condition due to a head injury.

It’s believed that complete dispatch records for Skala’s vehicle stop could help explain why Morris wasn’t promptly transported to a hospital.

By the time police took Morris to a hospital — an hour after the first 911 call — she was brain dead.

Complete dispatch records also could help explain why none of the officers who responded to Morris documented the courtesy ride in their patrol-activity log, or by writing a report.

The D.A.’s Office says it’s actively investigating the Morris case. But advocates for Morris say the agency is engaged in a cover-up.

They want state Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane to investigate. But so far, Kane hasn’t agreed to do so.

Last year, the PAC recommended state and federal probes of the Morris case, citing an “appalling” local investigation. n now. It is expected that more bishops will be invited in 2015, many of whom will be appointees of Pope Francis, and who could form an open-minded majority that can curtail the cries of conservative doctrinal purists appointed by the previous pope.

Unfortunately, Viola sees little room for progress between now and the next synod, he said.

“If there was any type of drawbridge trying to get LGBT Catholics back into the church community, that bridge has been drawn up. I don’t think it will come back between now and the 2015 meeting, but it will remain a topic of discussion,” he said.

Viola’s frustrations point towards similar challenges the church has faced as it struggles to adapt to the ever-changing demographics of its congregation.

“You know, it’s not just LGBT [issues] and same-sex marriage the church is grappling with now,” Viola said. “There are also issues of polygamy in some African countries. Each culture has its own issues the church is coming face to face with. They are trying to come up with one set of rules that applies to everybody, and that is not going to work.” n

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By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com

A new Halloween-themed 3k “fun run” is coming to one of Philadelphia’s most historic cemeteries.

The Run4UrLife race will take place 7 p.m. Oct. 30 at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 215 Belmont Ave. in Bala Cynwyd.

All proceeds will directly benefit Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutritonal Alliance, a free-of-charge meal delivery and nutrition-counseling organization that serves the greater Philadelphia and southern New Jersey area.

The event is being made possible through a large-scale collaboration among community business leaders. Rob Saxon, director of external affairs for MANNA, said the idea for the run arose from a casual conversation he had with fellow Independence Business Alliance members at a meeting in July.

“I was at an IBA business meeting at Comcast in July and was talking with Deborah Cassidy, director of sales, marketing and family service for West Laurel Hill Cemetery, and Gavin McKay, owner and founder of Unite Fitness,” Saxon said. “We

wanted to get into a run for a while.

And we were joking, ‘What if we ran through the cemetery and were chased by terrifying people?’”

While the fundraising is the main element, Saxon said, the truly amazing thing about this event is how it brought the Philadelphia business community together.

“There are so many organizations that have come together to make this possible. Comcast is running a PSA for us. Chatterblast is managing social media. Tag strategies is doing web design. Sage is handling PR. Gabello Studios produced our 30-second promo video, which is being aired on NBC10. MAC Cosmetics is doing the makeup for our volunteer scare people. Halloween Revolution donated costumes for them. All of this work was done at no charge to MANNA — it’s incredible.”

The event will feature ghouls and terrifying creatures jumping out from behind tombstones and chasing runners as participants make their way through the course.

It is an all-ages event. Registration begins at 6 p.m. and costs $30, which includes a Run4UrLife T-shirt.

Costumes are encouraged.

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would be punishable by a maximum of 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.

The legislation was introduced after last month’s brutal attack on a gay couple in Center City. Three suspects were arrested but cannot be charged with a hate crime, as the state’s hate-crime law was stripped of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as disability, protections several years ago because of a technicality.

Before the hearing began, everyone in the chamber stood for a moment of silence in honor of Gloria Casarez, Philadelphia’s first director of LGBT affairs, who died Oct. 19.

Meanwhile in Harrisburg, the time to pass statewide hate-crimes legislation is almost up as this session draws to a close.

Even among the flurry of last-minute bills that legislators passed — not uncommon at the end of a session — HB 177 was not one of them.

The House brought 68 pieces of legislation to a vote in just the last three session days alone — 11 more than the 57 voted on in the entire month of September — bringing the total to 129 thus far for October.

Yet legislators did not bring themselves to pass Rep. Brendan Boyle’s measure, similar to that which their predecessors already made law in 2002, before a Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge later struck it down on procedural grounds.

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News Briefing More depositions in police-brutality case Attorneys for Luis Berrios told a federal judge last week they intend to obtain additional depositions in his case.

In 2010, Berrios and his then-partner were allegedly subjected to anti-LGBT abuse when arrested by Philadelphia police.

All charges against the men were eventually dropped. But in 2012, Berrios filed suit against the city and several police officers, alleging civil-rights violations.

His suit alleges false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, assault and battery and other wrongdoing.

Last month, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones 2d asked both sides for a status update.

On Oct. 8, city attorneys said they intend to file a motion that seeks dismissal of the case.

But attorneys for Berrios said they need to obtain more depositions before deciding on their next move.

Meanwhile, Berrios continues to seek a jury trial, according to court records.

Neither side had a comment for this report.

A Methodist Church disciplinary hearing will be held this week in Memphis, Tenn., for the Rev. Frank Schaefer.

Schaefer allegedly violated church rules in 2007 by officiating at his son’s same-gender wedding in Massachusetts.

In December, he was defrocked after refusing to promise not to perform another same-sex marriage.

In June, an appeals panel reinstated Schaefer, noting it was unjust to punish him for something he may do in the future. But Schaefer’s local prosecutor, the Rev. Christopher Fisher, filed an appeal with the church’s highest judicial body, the Judicial Council.

The council will hold a hearing on the matter at 11 a.m. Oct. 22 at the Doubletree Hotel, 185 Union Ave. in Memphis.

The public is permitted to attend, but a decision isn’t expected to be announced until several days after the hearing concludes.

Schaefer currently ministers to a university community in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Before that, he served as pastor of Zion United Methodist Church in Lebanon, Pa. In a prepared statement, Schaefer said: “My hope is for the Judicial Council to allow me to continue as a United Methodist clergy because it would keep the discussion going. If you exclude those who disagree, you close the door to a much-needed dialogue which, in turn, invites a schism.”

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He also noted the diversity within his immediate family.

“I have three gay children. I believe God gave them to me so I would get the message. Gay or straight, we are all created in God’s image. Gay or straight, God blesses our love relationships.”

Appeals court denies Schneller’s request The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied a request by anti-LGBT activist James Schneller to intervene in a pending marriage-recognition case.

Last year, Cara Palladino and Isabelle Barker filed suit in federal court, seeking recognition in Pennsylvania of their Massachusetts same-sex marriage.

The defendants are Gov. Tom Corbett and Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane.

Schneller sought to intervene in the case, alleging that its outcome could affect his civil rights.

But in a six-page opinion issued Oct. 15, the Third Circuit said Schneller has no right to participate in the case.

The Palladino case remains pending until all appeals are exhausted in the Whitewood case, which established marriage equality throughout Pennsylvania.

Schneller had no comment for this story.

Michael L. Banks, an attorney for the plaintiffs, expressed agreement with the court’s decision.

“There’s no need for Mr. Schneller to be a party to this,” Banks told PGN. “This is a dispute between people that are aggrieved — Palladino and Barker — and the state. Schneller’s involvement is

unnecessary for the case to be resolved.”

Nizah committee plans demonstration At their Oct. 20 meeting, members of the Justice for Nizah committee said a Center City candlelight march and vigil will be held Dec. 22 to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the death of Nizah Morris.

Morris was a transwoman who was found with a fatal head injury on Dec. 22, 2002, shortly after getting inside a Philadelphia police vehicle for a Center City “courtesy ride.”

She died two days later, of blunt-force trauma to the head, and her homicide remains unsolved.

Details of the demonstration will be finalized at a planning meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Nov. 24 at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. In other business, the committee agreed unanimously to request a meeting with District Attorney R. Seth Williams.

Committee members expressed numerous concerns about the handling of the local investigation into Morris’ death.

The committee also finalized a letter to be sent to Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, requesting a state probe of the Morris case. About 20 organizations have signed on to the letter so far.

Additionally, the committee agreed to reach out to elected officials in the region to obtain additional support for a state probe of the Morris case. n — Timothy Cwiek

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Engagement Terri Bradley and Terri Jones

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com Terri Bradley and Terri Jones have known each other for the better part of 20 years. In a relationship for the past three, their special connection — established the moment they met — has withstood life’s ups and downs, including marriage, divorce, children and even domestic violence.

Bradley met Jones under the most harrowing of circumstances. Bradley was the victim of sexual violence by her then-partner and it got so bad, she and her daughter had to be escorted by law enforcement to a domestic-violence shelter at 13th and Pine streets.

It was there where Jones opened the door for Bradley and told her, “Everything is going to be OK.”

“As soon as she said that, it completely calmed the storm raging inside me,” Bradley said.

Bradley eventually left the shelter and returned home and the pair kept in touch sporadically, but would not run into each other again for a few years, until Jones was a guest at Bradley’s wedding.

Over the years, Bradley said, Jones would often be on her mind.

“I got on Facebook in 2009,” Bradley said, “and I tried to find her on there, but I couldn’t.”

It would take three more years for Bradley to connect with Jones via Facebook, and when she finally did, Jones’ reply came quicker than expected.

“I was so excited to have finally found her. I sent her a message, and she responded right away. I was

so overwhelmed I had to pull over to the side of the road. She gave me her number and I called her right then,” Bradley said.

Jones answered on the first ring.

“Do you know how long I have been looking for you?” Bradley asked through tears of joy.

They made plans to meet at a family gathering of Jones’ that weekend, and have been together — with the exception of a brief separation — since July 22, 2011.

Bradley, 46, grew up in Atlantic City, went to Atlantic City High School and then attended Temple University. Jones, 51, attended Frankford High School in Philadelphia, received a bachelor’s from Pierce College and is currently pursuing an MBA at Devry University.

Bradley described Jones as “the serious one” of the two of them, but said she has an endearing sense of humor that Bradley can’t resist.

“She makes me laugh just by the faces she makes, and her cute little jokes. I crack

up every time,” she said.

“And she loves to dance, and I love that about her.

And she can actually dance.”

Jones said Bradley “is fun, nurturing and outgoing. She is kind of the yin to my yang — she balances me.”

“I’m more of a laidback person. But Terri, she is like my alter ego,” Jones joked.

The proposal came from Jones one quiet night while the couple was at home.

They were talking through some of the issues that had prompted their separation, and Jones said that put their future into perspective.

“You know, [I said], ‘We have been in each other’s lives for so long now. We have tried dating and being with other people, and it just didn’t work out — we always come back to each other. I really think life is trying to tell us something. I think we are meant to be together. Will you marry me?’”

The wedding and ceremony will take place at Romano’s restaurant in Northeast Philadelphia. n

LGBT parents connect, learn at annual conference

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com LGBT parents and prospective parents will find a host of resources under one roof next month.

Philadelphia Family Pride is hosting its fifth-annual Family Matters conference 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 1 at The Philadelphia School, 2501 Lombard St. The event is an opportunity to network, share information and get concrete advice from LGBTQ parents, attorneys and other professionals through a series of curated workshops and panels.

This year’s theme, “Our Families and the Future,” will cover topics related to how electronics and social media are becoming part of how the LGBT community connects, and the impact technology has on adults, kids and family units.

Mary Anders, former detective for the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, will be the keynote speaker. Her talk is entitled “Cyberbullying & Sexting: Prevention, Education & Tips for Parents.”

Stephanie Haynes, community coordinator for PFP, said there were two elements that continually draw people to the event.

“It’s this sense of connection. Many of us do have friends that are LGBT parents, but coming to a place where there are 100 of you is a really nice feeling. I’ve seen it time and time again. People come here and make friends and connections that last a lifetime,”

she said. “The other thing is for the kids.

The more the kids attend these events, the more their experience is normalized. Not only do they see one other kid with gay parents, they see a whole bunch of different types of families — trans, gay, lesbian, black, Latino, etc.”

Other workshop topics include: babymaking in the 21st century; assisted-reproductive options for LGBT families; the impact of marriage equality in Pennsylvania; and connecting to online LGBT resources.

While all panels are led by experts in their respective fields, Haynes emphasized parental viewpoints will also be given throughout.

“It’s not just about the experts. We will have parents sharing their stories too. We can learn from each other,” she said.

The overarching technology theme this year stemmed from high demand by PFP members.

“We do a request for proposals where members and board members suggest topics. This topic immediately resonated with the planning committee,” Haynes said.

“Navigating privacy on the internet, and introducing your kids to how to use a phone. For those of us who have younger kids, it’s good to get ahead of the curve.”

The conference was first held in 2010 at the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research and offered 20 workshops for attendees.

Since then, it has grown in accordance

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Wedding Joe Buches and Glen Abrams with the swelling PFP membership, which now boasts about 150 active family members and another 100 who attend about one PFP event a year, according to Haynes.

While the conference is the organization’s largest educational event of the year, and typically draws a large crowd, it is still a challenge getting parents and families to attend, Haynes said.

“That is the big challenge.

So we plan a lot of activities, usually on the smaller side where we will meet in someone’s home with just a few families and have dinner. But,” she added, “this is one of our objectives at the conference this year: To ask our members and discuss how we can better engage them.”

Free childcare will be provided at the conference.

For more information or to register, visit www.philadelphiafamilypride.org. n

By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Joe Buches was appointed as artistic director of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus in 2004 — and found much more than a new creative outlet through the venture.

Buches met PGMC member Glen Abrams that year, and a decade later, the two were married.

The couple was joined Oct. 11 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, where Buches serves as musical director.

The men, both 45, live in Northern Liberties. Buches is a native of Bethlehem and Abrams hails from Copley, Ohio, moving here to work for the City of Philadelphia in 1998. He now serves as the director of sustainable communities for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Abrams said his husband’s outgoing nature quickly drew him in when they were introduced at a PGMC event.

“The first impression most people have of him is his dynamic, gregarious personality,” he said.

“One of the things I talked about at the wedding was his laughter; he’s always willing to laugh and it’s infectious and will always make me smile.

That’s one of the things I so appreciate and love.”

Their initial common interest, music, proved to be an important one, Buches said.

“We’re both very into music.

His family is very musical so I fit right in with them and him with mine. We clicked right away,” Buches said. “Family is a big, important part of both of our lives.”

Abrams added that, while each has his own strengths, they complement each other.

“We definitely have similarities but also distinct differences that are actually complementary,” Abrams said. “It’s the ways in which we differ that kind of challenge each other, and at the same time keep us grounded.”

Being present, Abrams added, and remaining committed to communicating and listening has also been integral in their decade-long

relationship.

“It really comes down to we just have a good time together,” he added.

They decided to take their relationship to the next stage after Pennsylvania adopted marriage equality in May. “We had talked a lot about marriage before but wanted to wait until it was legal here,” Buches said. “So shortly after Pennsylvania passed it, we decided to get married and decided it was important to have our friends and family there with us.”

The couple hosted an intimate dinner for family first, followed

by the ceremony and reception for a larger crowd, all of which was held at the church.

Now that they’re legally wed, Buches said, their relationship has taken on a new dynamic.

“It actually does feel different,” he said. “I could feel the difference just by saying, ‘I do.’ It’s a really wonderful feeling.”

Abrams added that they were impressed by the significance of being able to share their relationship with their loved ones, and to have that bond sanctioned by the state.

“It was a very public declaration in front of all of our family and friends and that was important and very moving. People knew us as a couple but because we had that declaration, and had chosen to do a ceremony at a church, it really added importance for us,” Abrams said. “And there’s added weight now that there’s legal recognition.

The commonwealth recognizes us as a couple, a family, and that feels wonderful.” n

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Creep of the Week

D’Anne Witkowski

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder

Editorial

Gloria’s legacy Throughout her life, Gloria Casarez was many things to many people: Leader.

Activist. Organizer. Role model. Employee. Mentor. Boss. Coworker. Friend.

Niece. Daughter. Wife. But, despite her varied roles, the descriptions that poured in to PGN were near-universal — a testament to the authenticity with which she lived her life.

When PGN works on obituaries, we often cull stories from family, friends and coworkers to paint a full picture of the person. But Gloria’s story didn’t need any piecing together. We saw from our interviews that the person she was at home was the person she was in City Hall — and everywhere in between.

One of the most common words we heard repeated about Gloria was “fierce.”

This adjective was put into many contexts — from her work against large-scale societal injustices to putting a rude police officer in his place to her more-than five years of fighting cancer. That attitude also extended to her interpersonal connections, as many said she would drop anything and everything for a friend in need, loving fiercely.

Another common theme was the ease with which she could relate to and engage with people, across all spectrums. She could go from a meeting with the mayor or top state officials directly to counseling an LGBT youth, and would find the words that were relevant and understandable to both audiences. Gloria got her start working on grassroots social- and economic-justice issues, so perhaps her ability to work with diverse populations reflects that she never lost sight or touch with where she came from; even though she walked the corridors of City Hall each day, she didn’t let her position put any distance between herself and her roots.

Gloria’s undeniable humor was also evident. Whether she was dancing in her living room, singing (or rapping) karaoke or bringing laughs to an otherwise-tense meeting, Gloria, as one friend put it, “always saw the humor” in every situation.

Finally, Gloria was a teacher. The word itself wasn’t used by many to whom we spoke, but that role was clear as person after person recounted how much they learned from her, even when she wasn’t setting out to make an example.

They learned not to back down from something they believed in. They learned the importance of giving a voice to the voiceless. They learned that anything is possible through hard work and ingenuity. And they learned to live each day with passion, integrity and joy.

Many people said Gloria’s goal was to change the world. She certainly did that.

And it is now our task as a community to emulate Gloria — her bravery, fearlessness and fortitude — and keep our community and city moving toward the place she envisioned for us. n

It’s been a tough four years for Michiganders under Gov. Rick Snyder.

Especially the gay and lesbian ones.

During his debate with Democratic rival Mark Schauer on Oct. 12, Nolan Finley of The Detroit News asked Snyder, “Governor, if the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds Judge [Bernard A.] Friedman’s [March 21] overturning of Michigan’s gay-marriage ban, will you ask the attorney general to pursue the appeal further, or will you let the matter rest?”

“They’re separate constitutional offices, Nolan, so we each have a choice and I would, I’m gonna wait for the opinion to come down,” Snyder replied.

In other words, he’s saying he isn’t the boss of Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Schuette. But Snyder’s own name is on the lawsuit, so it isn’t like he’s disconnected from it, separate offices or not. Also, Schuette’s a rightwing conservative, a characterization Snyder’s tried to avoid, so you’d think he might be comfortable breaking with Schuette on this issue. But no.

Snyder continued, “That’s a hypothetical, but I will respect what happens in our court system and I think that’s where the issue is going to be decided.”

It’s disingenuous for Snyder to dismiss Finley’s question as “a hypothetical,” because it really isn’t. There’s a distinct possibility that the Sixth Circuit will uphold Friedman’s ruling. One presumes that Snyder has a plan for what he’ll do in that instance, as well as a plan for what he’ll do if the Sixth Circuit goes his way. Are we to believe that Snyder just hasn’t bothered to think about it?

Note, too, Snyder said he “will respect what happens in our court system,” not that he will respect the decision of the Sixth Circuit, which means he very well might “pursue the appeal further,” as Finley put it, in the question that Snyder avoided answering.

Finley then asked Snyder, “Where do you stand on the issue?”

“Well, again, I’m waiting for the outcome of the courts,” Snyder said. And then Snyder shrugged, like, “What more could there possibly be to say?”

For some reason Snyder wants us to buy that, until the Sixth Circuit rules, why, he can’t bother his nerd brain with the subject of marriage equality.

Mark Schauer, on the other hand, gets it.

“I think the voters deserve to know where the governor will stand on tough issues,” he said.

“Now, [Snyder’s] statement leads you to believe he has no position. This governor, through his own legislature, banned domestic-partner benefits for gay and lesbian state employees. His tough choices are tough on all the wrong people.

They’re hurting people and hurting our families.”

Note that Snyder didn’t say anything about families in his answer. Because his administration doesn’t value gays and lesbians as people and he certainly doesn’t think our relationships matter. Otherwise, why not say so? It isn’t a radical position to say that all of Michigan’s families matter. But it’s too radical for Snyder.

Snyder claims he’s a numbers guy, and the economy is his main concern.

Yet the state pissed away tens of thousands of dollars on “expert” testimony against gay families in court.

Again, Schauer gets it.

“I support marriage equality,” he said.

“It is not only the right thing to do, but it is an economic issue here in our state. To discriminate against people, talented people we need to help rebuild the city of Detroit and our communities, is wrong. I’ve talked to parents who have adult children who are professionals who live in other states, who won’t come here because we have backwards policies.”

Voting for Snyder is, quite literally, voting against gays and lesbians and their families. Not bothering to vote at all is, too. Get out there on Nov. 4 and show Snyder that gays and lesbians and the people who care about them aren’t unicorns.

We’re real. And we vote. n

For some reason Snyder wants us to buy that, until the Sixth Circuit rules, why, he can’t bother his nerd brain with the subject of marriage equality. Voting for Snyder is, quite literally, voting against gays and lesbians and their families. Not bothering to vote at all is, too.

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world, she reviews rock and roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister and teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

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Loss of a true leader If you’re like me, you hate to go to uttered, “Where is the mayor?” funerals. In fact, many of us in the LGBT That line shows what an incredible percommunity have gone to far too many son she was. She knew life would be short due to our friends and family who passed for her and, no matter what, she was going from AIDS. But this is not a column about to go about doing the work she believed in.

AIDS. And she’d do it with joy. If she was able to Gloria Casarez, the mayor’s get out of the bed in the mornLGBT liaison, passed away this ing or afternoon, she’d work week, and I’ll be at her funeral to on projects close to her heart. celebrate her life.

Those are the two aspects About a year ago, Gloria, Rue about Gloria that I’ll rememLandau and Franny Price were ber, her sense of work and her scheduled to take a tour of the sense of humor. Both brought John C. Anderson LGBT-friendly a joy to a job that can be difsenior apartments. Construction ficult at times, as it requires on the building was almost commaneuvering the political plete and residents would be minefields of both City Hall moving in in a few weeks, but and the LGBT community. She did that well, and we are a betI wanted them to see what they ter community for her efforts. had a hand in building. It was By the way, the mayor a cold, rainy, windy day as I stood there waiting for them to finally made it and, as he was arrive to give them a tour of the out of the car, she Mark Segal coming almost-finished building. walked over to him, soaked The first one to show up was from the rain, more rain dripGloria. I looked at her and she noted that ping down her face, and said, “You’re I saw what was evident. Her face was not late.” She said it with a smile. I’ll always quite right. Without me saying a word, she remember that and think of her and smile said, “It’s Bells Palsy, and I also have the myself. n flu and a cough so don’t hug me.” I suggested that she didn’t have to be there and Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the that I’d take her on a personal tour any nation’s most-award-winning commenother time that she was feeling better. She tator in LGBT media. You can follow put her hands on her hips and said, “When him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ am I ever going to feel better?” We both MarkSegalPGN or Twitter at https://twitter. smiled and she looked at her watch and com/PhilaGayNews.

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Street Talk Do you think you'll live to see Catholic priests be allowed to perform same-sex marriages?

"No. Not even if I live to be 100. I don't see it happening in the next 65 years.

Granted, there's a voice for Jason Bartlett change within student the Catholic Norwood, N.J. Church, but the voice isn't calling for gay marriage. It's calling for dignity and respect for the LGBT community, which is a very different thing. At least the pope continues to breathe new life into the conversation."

"The Catholic Church moves very slowly. I'll give it 30 years. I'm 23.

I could see it happening by the time I'm 53. Pope Maddie Lesage artist Francis is a Lansdowne big difference from the previous pope. But it will take at least three more popes before gay marriages are performed in the church."

"Yes. The new pope is very liberal. So that makes me think it will happen someday.

Having said that, I still Kathryn Repetto think it's student going to take Lansdowne a long time, like 50 years. It will probably happen by the time I'm 70. The church leadership is stuck in the past."

"No. The Catholic Church is too backward in its thinking.

We're talking about an institution that Cameron Shryock persecuted valet people of West Philadelphia different religions, to the point of killing them. So I'm not optimistic at all. They tend to be backward on all progressive social issues."

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In response to “City’s director of LGBT affairs, Gloria Casarez, dies at 42,” Oct. 19:

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I am very saddened to read this and will always appreciate everything she did for the Philly GLBT community. Very cool woman who did more in her life than most people do who live to 100. Much love to Tricia.

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— Ryan Goldner Very sad! Sincere condolences to her wife, Tricia, and her family. Gloria’s

spirit will live on through the powerful legacy she left behind. She will be missed.

— Beca In response to “OutFest sees record success,” Oct. 17-23: I live in NYC and keep hearing really good things about OutFest. I’m going to definitely have to mark it on my calendar for next year!

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New kids’ album from Grammy winners celebrates all families have all been recorded, but Fink The lyric, "I belong to a famand Marxer recently launched ily. It may not look like your a Kickstarter campaign to raise family,” epitomizes the joyous funds for publicity and marketnew children’s album “Dancin’ ing before the album is in the Kitchen,” by released. two-time Grammy Award-winning duo The common thread Cathy Fink and Marcy throughout is what Marxer. Families with makes a family and a same-sex parents are home — with almost only one of the many all of the songs looktypes of families celeing at the world from brated in this warm and a child’s perspective. funny collection.

The first is the toe-tap Fink and Marxer are ping “Dancin’ in the best known for their Kitchen,” recorded traditional and contemwith the Grammyporary folk, old-time winning Savoy Family country and swing Band. It starts Dana Rudolph Cajun music. They’ve made right off with the line, 44 albums together, “Dancing in the kitchen working with musical greats such with Mommy and Mama,” with as Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton, later verses celebrating “Daddy and have composed and performed and Papa,” a baby brother, grandaward-winning children’s music mother and cousins. At parties for 25 years. she’s had, Fink says, “everyone They had long wanted to make a always gathers in the kitchen. It children’s album of songs and stoseems to be the heart of many ries that more families could idenhomes. We know families like all tify with, Fink said in an interview. of the ones described in that song, She cited as inspiration the 1986 but kept it flexible so people could children’s book (and associated sing along and include their own album) “Free to Be … a Family,” families.”

“Happy Adoption Day” is soothing and celebratory. “Soccer Shoes” is about a child with a divorced mom and dad who can’t remember at which parent’s home he left his soccer shoes — but who is otherwise managing life in two households. The song was written

by Sue Ennis, songwriter for the rock band Heart and a friend of Fink and Marxer.

Other songs celebrate a new child, spending time with a grandparent, being twins (sung by identical twins Greg and Jere Canote) and the canine members of our Marcy Marxer (left) and families. Single moms, step-parCathy Fink Photo: Sarah R. Coats ents, families with grandparents as guardians, families with sibdeveloped by actor and activist lings from around the world and Marlo Thomas, which defined families with different-sex parents family as “a feeling of belonging.” also get mentioned. “I’m My Own “Dancin’ in the Kitchen” is a Grandpa” tells us about a man fresh take on similar themes, with whose father married the man’s an expanded range of families. wife’s grown daughter. It’s a silly “There are many topics that are song on the face of it — but also a easier to talk about with music,” nod to sometimes-complex family Fink said. “We feel like we’ve ties. continued the story and made it There are no songs about transyours and ours.” gender parents, but gender roles They brought together songwrit- come up in “Everything Possible,” which says, “There are girls who ers, performers and a children’s grow up strong and bold, there chorus to create a wonderful tapare boys who are quiet and kind.” estry of an album that combines And in “The Family Song,” a child a variety of musical styles as whose mother is a doctor and well as family types. The pieces

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whose father is a nurse “doesn’t understand the jokes” people make about his family.

The spoken-word piece, “Who Is in Charge of Naming the Colors,” by storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin, is a clever, funny look at being biracial. “Andy’s got a smart sense of humor as well as a mouth full of hilarious sounds,” Fink observed.

The most touching track is the lullaby “Everything Possible,” written by Fred Small. In it, a parent says, "I will sing you a song no one sang to me. May it keep you good company. You can be anybody you want to be. You can love whomever you will." A later verse is more specific: “Some women love women. Some men love men.

Some have children, some never do.”

That song first appeared on their 1992 album, “Nobody Else Like Me,” and Fink and Marxer had wanted to include a children's chorus in it then. “It became quite controversial,” Fink related. “Most parents loved the song,” she said, but “a few parents told us that not only could their child not sing on that song, but if it was in the album, they could not sing in the album.”

“We sent a note home telling them we respected them all, but would not be censored,” Fink said.

The chorus did not sing the song, but the women “recorded it as a trio with folksinger David Roth and closed the album with it.”

Times have changed, and the new album has “a beautiful kids’ chorus” added to the original tracks. Fink said, “The parents were all very enthusiastic about this and all of the songs. We love seeing progress.”

Fink and Marxer are planning to release the album in mid-February.

If they raise more than their goal on Kickstarter, they hope to use it on additional public relations, gift recordings for various childrens’ programs and music videos.

That would indeed be something for all families to dance about.

Find out more about this album and its Kickstarter campaign at Tinyurl.com/cathymarcy or learn more about the duo at cathymarcy. com. n Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (mombian. com), a GLAAD Media Awardwinning blog and resource directory for LGBT parents.

Staying healthy in the gym During the first season of my three-season arena-football stint, as I was going up to block a pass, I suddenly felt what can best be described as being hit with a lightning bolt in my left shoulder. When the play was blown dead, lying on the turf, it felt like my arm had just been torn off by Jaws.

Later in the week, I drove to a New Jersey hospital to receive an MRI. The result was a torn supraspinatus.

Four years later, Chris I continue to experience regular pain and discomfort from this injury — not only in a gym setting, but also in real life. Injuries are nothing that should be taken lightly, so I think that we can all agree that it should no longer be acceptable to train one’s body as if it were nothing but a simple sack of guts and bones.

I notice many people in the gym gripping their opposite shoulder with clenched teeth, wondering why their shoulder feels as if it’s going to fall off, which is unacceptable and dangerous. We go to the gym for self-improvement, not to promote poor movement patterns and increase our risk for injury. As much as I would enjoy writing about the anatomy of the shoulder, I feel that it is beyond the scope of this specific article, and cannot be done in only 500 words.

However, the purpose of this article is to arm you with the knowledge to protect yourself from irresponsible trainers and exercises that promote more harm than good.

Enter the bench dip: I get it. You want massive triceps, but there is no reason that you should sacrifice the health of your joints for unlimited tickets to the gun show. The key is to find what works and ditch what doesn’t damage your body in both the short and long term, and bench dips put undue amounts of stress and strain on the rotator cuff.

Allow me to explain with

the following example. As you drop down into the bottom of the movement, the front of your shoulder is driven forward, which will create a massive amount of stress on the anterior portion of your shoulder.

The lower you go, the more weight you pile onto your lap, the more stress and strain. This is especially terrible for anybody with a pre-existing shoulder injury. The very high risk-versus-reward ratio is not worth it, as Semick just it is an extremely vulnerable position for your shoulders. Bottom line: Bench dips are an exceptionally terrible exercise that can cause damage during your workout.

To keep your shoulders healthy while building massive triceps, try doing a close-grip floor press. Perform this exercise with moderate-to-heavy weight and a variety of rep ranges. Typically, you’ll want to grip where the pointer fingers are, right outside of the smooth part of the bar. Pull the bar down to your chest, pause when your triceps reach the floor and return the bar to the starting position.

Just because your trainer or a random fitness publication promotes specific exercises does not make it right to put this advice into regular practice. Choose exercises that provide you with the biggest bang for your buck, because the bench dip is most definitely not one of them. Finally, seek the advice of a 12th Street Gym registered personal trainer who will be able to give you the tools and exercises that are required for a safe, healthy and balanced workout. n

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Chris Semick is a Philadelphiabased 12th Street Gym registered personal trainer and owner of Rival Athletics.

Semick’s specialties include beginning to advanced training, weight loss, muscle gain and high-intensity training.

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ceremony earlier this month.

The flag was lowered the day after her passing, and the site has served as a memorial to Casarez, with candles and flowers amassing there Monday morning.

Casarez also undertook a wealth of behind-the-scenes initiatives.

Philadelphia Human Relations Commission executive director Rue Landau worked closely with Casarez to ensure the policies and practices of city agencies were LGBT-inclusive.

“That was often informal. It could be something like having a conversation with the head of a department when we heard the department was doing something wrong. Or it could be a larger effort, when we were brought in by the department to make sure they did something right,” Landau said.

Casarez’s efforts also extended to the legislative front.

She was among the coalition of community and city leaders who began meeting in 2008 to discuss reforms to city policies that ultimately resulted in the landmark 2013 LGBT-rights bill, which offered first-in-thenation tax credits for companies providing domestic-partner and transgender-health benefits, and it revamped a significant number of trans-related policies. She was a key figure in the overhaul of the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance and pressed for the legislation to mandate that some city contractors offer domestic-partner benefits.

“We worked together on a lot of legislative work,” Landau said. “I’d dissect the legal part and Gloria was a great visionary for the policy part. I think that’s why the mayor called us the ‘Dynamic Duo.’” Casarez testified before a state Senate committee in 2008 on behalf of the Mayor’s Office about legislation that sought to instate a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, and she successfully advocated for the removal of gender markers from SEPTA transpasses.

In 2009, Casarez helped create a committee to heighten awareness about LGBT inclusion in the U.S. Census, and also worked to connect locals for a pioneering survey of LGBT elders’ needs. Her efforts also extended to youth, as she worked with the Philadelphia School District in 2009 to create and distribute an LGBT resource guide to city schools and lobbied for the tighter anti-bullying policy the School Reform Commission adopted in 2010.

With Casarez at the helm, Philadelphia twice topped the Human Rights Campaign’s list of LGBT-friendly cities.

“When her office was moved into the Mayor’s Office, she took that role and that charge seriously,” Landau said. “She knew the importance of having this office in the Mayor’s Office and she was going to make sure she provided access to the entire LGBT community. For the first time, a lot of people were able to better understand things that were happening, because she made the information coming from City Hall so much more accessible.”

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equality was rooted long before her 2008 appointment.

“Gloria always had her eye on the community in every capacity before working for the mayor. It was always in her gut,” said Philly Pride Presents director Franny Price. “She would always be the first to say, ‘Did you know?’ ‘What do you think about this?’ No matter what it was — trans issues, white-collar, grassroots. Gloria was a community person, and it wasn’t limited to her job.”

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Born in South Philadelphia, Casarez grew up in North Philly, raised by a single mother, and moved to New Jersey to live with an aunt during high school, as her Kensington

neighborhood grew more dangerous. She came out at age 17 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and political science in 1993 from West Chester University.

During college she helmed the Latino Student Union and was involved with the Commission on the Status of Women. While still in school, she was involved with such initiatives as the Summer of Social Action and Spring Break for a Change and founded Empty the Shelters, a housing-rights group.

Her involvement with that organization led her to participate in many demonstrations — including one she recounted to PGN during a 2008 interview, in which she humorously recalled pitching a tent on the lawn of Independence Hall only to be awakened by the sprinklers.

She also worked at the Kensington Welfare Rights Union in the mid-’90s, where she met Landau.

After graduation, she got a position as program coordinator at the LGBT Center

at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked from 1995-98.

Center director B o b S c h o e n b e rg told PGN Casarez was hired along with another woman of color program coordinator, and the pair made impressive strides toward full LGBT inclusion at the organization and university. “ To h a v e t w o women who had strong senses of who they were as lesbians of color really helped to deepen the understanding at the center and at the university that we need to recognize the diversity within the community,” Schoenberg said.

In 1998, Casarez helped organize the first local Dyke March and continued to organize that event for a number of years, recently becoming an annual speaker.

Casarez told PGN the Dyke March was “one of the things I am really proud of and something that lives on. When you can be a part of founding something and see it thriving years later, it’s really rewarding.”

In 1997, she began working at Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative.

GALAEI founder David Acosta hired Casarez, noting it was a short interview.

“I knew I wanted to hire her instantly, and I did. It was one of the best decisions I ever made,” he said. “She was bright. She was intelligent. She just had a really great spirit about her and this wonderful energy that was very palpable to me.”

Casarez told PGN that GALAEI was a “special place,” as it represented both the Latino and queer communities, which she said were “big parts of my personal identity.”

After joining the team, Casarez launched its Reaching Adolescents Via Education program and, when Acosta decided to step down, Casarez took the helm.

“After a year of her being there, I knew I wanted to leave the organization to her.

It just became a natural that I would give her my baby,” Acosta said. “And I did that with an incredible amount of confidence, knowing she would shepherd it and steer it forward.

I took a conscious step back because I wanted her to bring her own vision, her own ideas and own character and charisma to the organization.”

During her tenure with GALAEI, Casarez grew the organization’s established programs and launched others, spearheading the creation of its Trans-Health Information Project, with C a s ey C o o k a n d B e n Singer.

“This project was very

much in line with Gloria’s commitment to social justice in general,” Cook said. “She was always a really fierce agent for change — through LGBT liberation, access to health care and housing, economic justice, HIV treatment. When we started TIP, ‘transgender’ was always just the tack-on to ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual’ to a lot of people in the community. But it was important to Gloria that trans folks had access to health care and other programming and that it was designed and run by the community.”

“GALAEI had always been an organization that worked to serve the most marginalized communities and, under Gloria’s leadership, we really excelled in reaching the trans community,” Gonzales added.

“TIP was and continues to be the only peerbased program by trans folk, for trans folk, not just in the city but the whole country.

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often lowercased and is often a neglected part of our community.”

That spirit of inclusion extended across her tenure with GALAEI, Gonzales noted.

“She taught me how to pay attention to those whose voices aren’t at the table,” Gonzales said. “She showed me how to look around a room and see who isn’t there, to recognize our own privilege in this world, and then work to invite those people to the table.”

She didn’t just supervise from behind a desk, but delved into the work, telling PGN she was among the team that would distribute condoms and health information everywhere, from bars to drug corners and drug houses to public-sex parks.

“You have to know where these people are and go out and meet them, literally and figuratively,” Casarez had said.

Acosta said the GALAEI of today is a direct reflection of Casarez’s work.

“She certainly pushed the organization forward, strengthened its mission and continued to keep an eye on what’s really made GALAEI unique. Then she brought her own magic to it,” Acosta said. “She steered the ship into new waters and stayed the course.”

Community leader GALAEI was one of a number of organizations Casarez was involved with over the past two decades.

She served on the board of directors of the Bread & Roses Community Fund since 2003, sitting on its Jonathan Lax Scholarship Committee since 2001.

She was an ex-officio member of the LGBT Police Liaison Committee since 2008, working with community leaders and police officials to address LGBT public-safety issues, and taking part in a number of LGBT-sensitivity training sessions for incoming officers. Price, who heads the committee, said Casarez was also instrumental in pushing for attention to LGBT issues, such as the Nizah Morris case, in the Police Advisory Commission.

Casarez was a founding board member of the LGBT Elder Initiative, started in 2010.

LGBTEI co-chair Heshie Zinman said Casarez co-chaired the programming committee for the LGBT Aging Summit with him that year, sat on the working group afterward and then joined the inaugural LGBTEI board.

“She brought this wisdom and insight into the planning process for the summit and, when we sat our board, she just said, ‘I’m in. I want to be part of this effort,’” Zinman said, noting that Casarez was a strong advocate for LGBT community members beginning to look at aging issues earlier in life.

“She was instrumental in moving us toward this theme of successful aging at every age.

Her knowledge, her sensitivity, her accessibility really opened a lot of doors for the LGBT Elder Initiative.”

Her work also extended to the tourism sector; she sat on the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau’s PHL Diversity board and recently was involved in the planning for next year’s Reminder 2015, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Annual

Reminder demonstrations.

Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus vice president Tami Sortman said Casarez also assisted in getting the Gayborhood listed as such on official city maps.

“She was the connector for our group to the city,” Sortman said. “For anything we needed help with — if we were bidding on groups to come into town or holding events here in town — she was the one who would connect us to the city.”

Casarez previously served on the board of Prevention Point Philadelphia and on the LGBT Research Community Advisory Board of Public Health Management Corporation.

Her years of LGBT community leadership was integral to her work for the Nutter administration, as she labored to link the city and the community — working with the Philadelphia Police Department to ensure its first trans applicant felt secure, facilitating crime-prevention meetings among the mayor, city officials, LGBT community members and LGBT business leaders and alerting and mobilizing city and community leaders to a planned visit by anti-LGBT group Westboro Baptist Church.

She spoke at a number of rallies to honor local transwomen who were murdered — Nizah Morris, Kyra Cordova, Stacey Blahnik and Diamond Williams — and pressed for justice for all LGBT victims, attending court proceedings and advocating and being present for meetings between Cordova’s family and police officials.

Casarez read the city’s first-ever proclamation honoring Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2012 and was often seen delivering mayoral proclamations and statements at community events, from Prides to galas to rallies, such as the marriage-equality celebration at City Hall in May. Casarez was a driving figure in helping attain a marker from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for Giovanni’s Room.

She was a frequent face at LGBT sporting events: She performed the coin toss for the 2010 championship game of the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League, was instrumental in the city’s welcoming of the 2011 women’s softball tournament held in Philadelphia, lobbied for an eventually successful deal between the city and the City of Brotherly Love Softball League for field improvements in 2010 and threw out CBLSL’s first pitch that year. She also pitched the first ball at the LGBT night at the Phillies in 2010, joking to PGN that her pitching needed some work.

“I’m thinking it’s a smaller ball [than the CBLSL softball] so that may be my only hope. But I wouldn’t expect any heat to come off my throw,” she laughed.

Her community involvement wasn’t always celebratory, Price noted, as Casarez worked hard to provide resources and assistance to the complex issues facing local LGBT community organizations.

“She knew all the organizations, and she also knew the city policies and the bills. She knew it all. And that’s what we needed in a representative at City Hall,” Price said.

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three members and if they were having an issue, Gloria knew about it. And she knew what needed to be done to address it. That’s exactly what our community needed.”

Outside the office While Casarez was a ubiquitous presence in the community, she wasn’t always focused on work.

She was passionate about photography, and once told PGN her dream job would be to open an iron-on T-shirt shop. One particular T-shirt she bought, Gonzales noted, kept Casarez laughing during a 2011 trip to Miami.

“She was just living it up and buying everyone shirts that said, ‘I’m in Miami, bitch.’ She was just really goofy and funny,” Gonzales said. “I’m so glad I got to see the side of her where she got to let loose and be crazy.”

Casarez had a penchant for “’70s and ’80s swag,” Landau said, like her collection of vintage toys and iron-ons. She was a fan of karaoke — especially rap songs

by Biggie Smalls, Gonzales noted — and loved to dance and play video games, especially “Rock Band,” with friends at her East Passyunk home.

Sortman added that Casarez sought to keep up on the latest technology. She recently purchased a computer system that operated everything from her TV to her

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lights to her speaker system.

“She was a gadget guru,” Sortman said.

“She was funny, playful, had all her toys.”

Her clever sense of humor, Landau said, extended from home to the office.

“She was playfully subversive,” Landau laughed.

Casarez would often escort the mayor to LGBT events, and sometimes wrote talking points for him — which Landau said she’d have fun with.

“She loved when she had him saying, ‘Congratulations to the Dyke March’ or ‘Congratulations to the Flaggots,’” Landau said. “I would say, ‘That’s hysterical,’ and she would say, ‘I love it. I told him how to say it.’ She was quirky and witty.”

Casarez idolized Wonder Woman — and had a poster of Lynda Carter on her wall during her time with GALAEI. In 2001, while working at GALAEI, Casarez was introduced to Dressel, who then worked for Mazzoni Center.

Ten years later, shortly after New York, Dressel’s home state, legalized same-sex marriage, they traveled to the Big Apple to wed. As they already had a 10th-anniversary party planned in Philadelphia the following month, the couple kept their nuptials under wraps until the event, surprising their guests with a video montage of the wedding. At the party, Nutter presided over his first samesex commitment ceremony.

“I think people felt our love, and we felt all the love coming from them,” Casarez told PGN about the event.

Their family — Gloria, Tricia and cat Baby — expanded by one last spring when they opened their home to a Yorkie puppy, Rocky.

“Gloria was always a cat lover and was OK with dogs, but when she got Rocky, it totally changed her whole persona,” Sortman said. “When you have a puppy, you do become a mother and that gave her a whole different outlook in life and gave her PAGE 18 a lot of joy.”

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LGBT History Month O, Dem Golden Slippers! Gender variance and the Mummers Parade

By Bob Skiba PGN Contributor

the Passyunk Club every year from 190928, almost always winning first or second place. The newspaper photos of the era They were called female impersonators, show Carter to be a diva force to be reckoned with. character types, lovely creatures, drag queens, pansies, divas. They were straight, Through the decades, competitors were bi, gay and queer. For over a century, hun- impeccably dressed in the height of current fashion: the dreds of men used tight hobble skirts the all-male bastion of 1914, the elabof the Philadelphia orate Ziegfeld Mummers New Follies headdresses Year’s Day Parade of the 1920s and to create a space the glamorous in which they movie gowns of the could publicly defy 1930s. By 1933, expectations about as what was called gender. “the pansy craze” Philadelphia’s in entertainment Mummers tradiswept America, tions date back at there were so many least to the early “female imperson19th century, when ators” in the parade bands of outrathat at least one geously dressed writer, astonished men would roam at the sea of gowns the city making and peacock feathnoise, creating ers, equated “drag,” havoc and shootas he called it, with ing off guns to welcome in the Female impersonators Ray Gordon homosexuality. In New Year. From (left) and Lee Watson at the 1949 his book “Strange its beginnings, the Mummers Parade Loves,” La Forest Potter wrote “The traditionally allstrangest feature male Mummers’ or of the matter is that, for quite a number of “New Years Shooters’” spectacle turned years, the first prize has always gone to a convention on its head by lampooning ‘fairy,’ made up as a woman and dressed local politicians, caricaturing ethnic types in the gorgeous gown of a woman. The and by including some of its participants most exquisitely designed costume in the in female clothing. entire parade was conceived, designed and In 1895, an Inquirer reporter wrote: worn — by a male designer, whose real “Much amusement was created by a vocation was that of an interior decorator.” shooter who was so dressed as to make Through the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, it impossible to believe that he was not a Mummers parades drew hundreds of woman. A green satin gown with a train, competitors each year from New York the whole embroidered with pink roses, City, Washington, D.C., and Boston, who was set off by a white parasol, plenty of face powder and a coquettish smile, which flocked to Philadelphia to show off their went straight to the hearts of those she — rather he — looked upon with favor.”

When the city officially began sponsoring the Mummers New Year’s Day Parade in 1901, among the categories it awarded cash prizes for was “Best Female Impersonator,” sometimes called “Character Type.” It’s important to note that this was a serious and prestigious prize; the award was in the Fancy Divisions category and not the Comic.

The comic “wench” costume was a later invention, whose grotesqueness and exaggeration only had the opposite effect of the “character type” of playing up the awkward masculinity of the wearer. Many participants competed each year, creating spectacular costumes to earn that prize for their club. South Philadelphian A Mummers Parade participant Frank Carter, for instance, represented (center) in 1902

The likenesses of Joel Grey (from left), Carmen Miranda, Shirley Bassey, Cher, Marilyn Monroe and Diana Ross marched with the Trilby String Band in the 1985 Mummers Parade. Photo: Harry Eberlin

finery on Broad Street, creating a highly visible gender-variant contingent in an already-colorful extravaganza.

The Mummers began including women in the parade in the late 1970s, about the same time the Trilby String Band mounted a parade production called “Las Vegas on Broadway” featuring several local diva impersonators. A few years later, in 1984, Trilby presented “La Cage aux Folles,” a tribute to the gay-themed Broadway show of the same name. Philadelphia Gay News carried a story about the openly gay Philadelphians who took part in the show, calling them “Our Boys in the Band.”

The number of female impersonators in the parade began to wane in the early 1990s and nearly disappeared for 20 years.

In 2013, the Mummers Association invited Brittany Lynn and her Drag Mafia to participate. Lynn’s high-heeled and sequined presence has revived a long and venerable tradition going back to the 19th century.

There’s much research to be done on those early gender-variant pioneers, and many questions to be answered. Who were these men who spent so much time and energy each year to compete? What drove them to participate year after year? Did their interest in female clothing go beyond this once-a-year spectacle? Did some identify as female? How were they viewed by their fellow Mummers, the press and the general public? Importantly, did they feel connected to a self-identified gender-variant community in Philadelphia?

It’s evident that their artful, theatrical performances made it possible for audience members of that community who lined the streets to be more visible and to

feel included in the spectacle. During the 1950s, there were corners on Broad and Locust streets where the “queers” congregated to watch. For one day a year in Philadelphia, being different was something to be celebrated. n Bob Skiba, a Philadelphia tour guide for 14 years, is president of the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides and archivist at William Way LGBT Community Center. He co-authored “Lost Philadelphia” in 2013.

Female impersonator Frank Carter modeling his parade attire in advance of the 1916 Mummers Parade

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Scores of LGBT sites eyed for landmark status

By Mathew S. Bajko Bay Area Reporter

Washington, D.C.-based Rainbow History Project.

Meinke has been assisting Springate with her work to locate properties with LGBT historical value that could be nominated for various federal landmark statuses.

He is also working on nominating the apartment Rustin lived in at 340 W. 28th St. in Manhattan for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Rustin’s partner, Walter Naegle, who still lives in the apartment, is supportive of the landmark status proposal. Because the park

cials, only five properties in the country have been granted some form of federal historic preservation recognition specifically due A National Park Service project to their relationship to LGBT hishas identified hundreds of potentory. In addition to the Stonewall tial LGBT sites across America Inn being deemed a National that could someday win federal Historic Landmark, there are landmark status. four sites presently included in The list, which as of late last the National Register of Historic month was nearing 400 places, Places, described by the park serruns the gamut from gay bars and vice as “the nation’s inventory of bathhouses to places of worship properties deemed central to its and LGBT community centers. It history and worthy of recognition includes the homes of prominent and preservation.”

LGBT individuals, such as the The quartet comprises the late gay civil-rights leader Bayard Dr. Franklin E. Kameny Rustin’s New York City Residence in Washington, apartment, and several D.C. (listed 2011); the gayborhoods, such as San James Merrill House in Francisco’s Castro district Stonington, Conn. (listed and the hamlet of Cherry 2013); and Fire Island Grove on New York’s Fire properties the Cherry Island.

Grove Community House Last October, as part of and Theater (listed 2013) its National Park Service and the Carrington House LGBTQ Initiative, the (listed 2014). federal agency issued a In 1957, Kameny was call to historians, preserfired from his federal govvationists and archivists ernment job for refusing who specialize in LGBT to answer questions about history to suggest sites his sexual orientation. that warrant being listed A historian is working to nominate the Considered “the father of on the national register or Manhattan apartment where Bayard gay activism,” he died in designated as historical Rustin (right) lived with his partner, 2011 at age 86. landmarks.

Walter Naegle, to be listed on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Megan E. Springate, National Register of Historic Places. author Merrill, a celea queer archaeology Naegle still resides there. brated American poet graduate student at the who died in 1995 at age University of Maryland, service does not recognize indi68, and his partner, David Noyes has been compiling the sites on vidual units, Meinke is working Jackson, who died in 2001 at age an interactive online map that on gathering support from other 76, bought their Stonington home now contains nearly 300 places residents of the co-op to have the in 1956. Merrill wrote almost all of import to the LGBT commuentire building be listed on the of his important works, including nity. As the Bay Area Reporter, register.

25 volumes of poetry, three plays San Francisco’s gay newspaper, The International Ladies’ and two books, while residing in reported in January, Springate is Garment Workers’ Union built the house. working on a National Historic the property in the mid-1950s to The Carrington House is conLandmark LGBTQ Theme Study house workers in the industry as sidered “an important link” in and proposed framework for the well as low- or middle-income Fire Island’s development as a National Park Service. gay resort area on the East Coast.

New Yorkers. The park service In May, Secretary of the The Cherry Grove property has given the entire complex a Interior Sally Jewell publicly opened in 1948 and is considered “declaration of eligibility” for acknowledged the park service’s the country’s “longest continulandmarking status, said Meinke.

LGBT initiative at a ceremony ously operating gay and lesbian “Rustin moved in in 1962, at the Stonewall Inn in New theater.” a year before the March on York City. The site of a riot in The next listing will likely Washington, and lived there until 1969 credited with launching the be the Chicago home of Henry his death in 1987,” said Meinke, modern civil-rights movement in Gerber, who in the early 1920s who expects to present his prothe LGBT community, the gay formed the Society for Human posal in March to the New York bar is currently the only LGBTState Historic Preservation Office. Rights, the first American gay associated site that has been “It should be considered for a civil-rights organization. The feddesignated a national historic national landmark historic status. eral landmarks program is worklandmark by the National Park But the first step is to place it on ing with University of Michigan Service. the National Register of Historic at Ann Arbor Professor Michelle “I am very pleased the park McClellan on the nomination for service has come around to want- Places, which is a common path to take.”

Gerber’s house. ing to recognize queer historic Park officials are eager to see sites and I want to do everything Five properties recognized more properties related to LGBT I can to help them get those sites history be nominated, but the processed,” said Mark Meinke, According to park-service offiagency relies on public individu66, a gay man who founded the

als to submit the required paperwork before it will consider a property. And a key requirement is having the backing of the current owner(s) of the site in question.

Designation as a National Historic Landmark, for instance, “actually takes some time (it’s a three-to-five-year process); this is compounded by our need to negotiate with property owners (who must agree to nomination and potential designation),” explained Alexandra M. Lord, Ph.D., branch chief of the National Historic Landmarks Program. “That said, we have received a few inquiries regarding some potential sites.”

One site that is frequently mentioned as worthy of receiving federal landmark status is 575 Castro St. in San Francisco, where the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk lived, operated a camera shop and headquartered his campaigns for public office. The property is listed as a city landmark but has yet to be nominated for national recognition.

Local preservationists are first waiting for the completion of a historic context statement for the city’s LGBT community, expected to be finished in early

Park officials are eager to see more properties related to LGBT history be nominated, but the agency relies on public individuals to submit the required paperwork before it will consider a property.

2015. The local planning document is considered the first step toward preserving places and structures of significant LGBT historical value and is often referred to by government agencies when determining requests for historic preservation designations.

“I am less anxious about reaching the point of having sites in San Francisco listed on the national register or be nationally landmarked; that will be fairly readily accomplished,” said local

historian Gerard Koskovich, who is on the advisory committee for the historic context statement project. “It is places outside of San Francisco that need an extra

A mural of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk is painted outside his former camera shop in the Castro. Photo: Rick Gerharter

boost and helping hand. That part of our history is less well-known, and it is intriguing to me to learn about those sites outside of San Francisco.”

Koskovich, who has also been helping Springate locate LGBT historical sites for her National Park Service project, said one step federal officials could take is to update the listings of already-landmarked sites so that their ties to LGBT history are added and highlighted.

“A strategy many of us are looking at is the amending of the historical description of sites already listed on the national register. A number of which, including here in San Francisco, have a gay history connection, but it is not mentioned in the original designation,” he said. “It is easy to imagine the national register, with 80,000-plus listings, has dozens, if not possibly hundreds, of sites already listed for other reasons that also have a significant LGBT history.”

For more information about the National Park Service LGBTQ Initiative, including a link to the interactive map of LGBT historic sites, visit http://www.nps.gov/ heritageinitiatives/lgbthistory/. n Matthew S. Bajko is an assistant editor at the Bay Area Reporter.

To read the B.A.R.’s earlier story, go to http://ebar.com/news/article.

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Dressel, as well as family and friends, were by Casarez’s side the past five years as she sought aggressive cancer treatments — chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy.

She was diagnosed in March 2009 with metastatic breast cancer, and the cancer progressively moved through her body, including the central nervous system.

Casarez kept a blog documenting the experience, portions of which were published in PGN. The passages often took a humorous angle on the serious situation, which friends say is how Casarez approached most things.

On losing her hair, Casarez joked in her blog, “Don’t call me ‘Baldie-locks.’ I’ll kick you” and she said she was trying to keep her bags “packed with positivity” and enjoy each day’s experiences.

Those experiences included work.

Nutter said Casarez approached the illness with a commendable sense of humility.

“She never wanted the focus to be on her; she was always deflecting or deferring to others. She would really only talk about how she felt if you asked her. She wasn’t walking around talking about herself or her health issues. I would see her in the hallway and say, ‘Hey, how are you doing?’ and she’d just say, ‘Coming along, getting better.’ And I know it wasn’t always necessarily true.

But she was a fighter. And that’s one of the things I love about her so much. And why this hurts so much.”

Gonzales postured it was that commitment to her position and to the community that inspired Casarez to fight for so long.

“She was diagnosed over five years ago, and she didn’t miss a beat,” Gonzales said.

“Other people, myself included, may feel a headache coming on and take a half-day, but she was diagnosed with this horrible form of cancer and was right back at work as soon as she was physically able and she stayed there for the duration. She never let on how much pain she must have been in because that wasn’t important to her. She was going to live her life, and give 100 percent to her work, to her community. And I think it was that work that served as her lifeline and kept her going. Tricia’s said she intended to go out on her own terms. She was in control.”

Casarez went to the emergency room last Thursday after her blood pressure dropped and was transferred to the ICU the following day. She received radiation as late as Saturday evening, then stopped treatment that night. She died Sunday morning as the sun rose.

A ‘wonder woman’ Casarez accrued a host of awards and honors over the years, including Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s 2009 Individual Hero Award; Women’s ENews 2010 Philadelphia Leadership Award; House of Prestige’s 2010 Humanitarian Award; Philadelphia FIGHT’s 2011 Kiyoshi Kuromiya Award; Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia’s 2011 Patron of Humanity Award; induction into West Chester University’s 2012 Legacy of Leaders class; GALAEI’s 2013 David Acosta Revolutionary Leader Award; Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition’s 2014 Keystone

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Award; and being named Pride grand marshal in 2001 and 2014.

But, friends and colleagues say, the list of accolades does not nearly encompass all that she gave to the community, and the lessons she imparted to her fellow leaders.

“She spoke out against any injustice, big or small,” Gonzales said. “She taught me to speak my truth, to live my life with integrity. Even if you’re in the minority, don’t be afraid to say what you think is right.”

Sortman noted that Casarez’s strong will permeated all of her work — including her writing, noting she was a “wordsmith of all

wordsmiths.”

“She’d send me something she wrote and I’d say it sounds great and, next thing I know, she’s sending out something completely different,” Sortman laughed. “Things had to be perfect. And she hardly ever backed down on anything. Once she got started, she would keep going.”

A group of friends gathered earlier this week to share stories and memories of Casarez, Landau said, and came to a consensus on three words that most described her: determined, fierce and hilarious.

“She had no problems dropping the f-bomb to whoever,” Gonzales joked.

“I have a picture of her basically telling off a police officer at the Fourth of July festival. She’d confront whoever if they did something wrong, it didn’t matter who it was.” she said. “But then the next second, she could be so tender. Someone would come up to her who just knew her from her work and she was so compassionate, warm and would make them feel like they were the only person in the room.”

That tenderness was ever-present, Acosta added.

“She was a dear friend, a confidant, a mentor. We weren’t anywhere near contemporaries in age but even when I was still at

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GALAEI, I would sit and talk to her and ask what she thought I should do about certain things,” he said. “She was always someone I could go to for advice. She was generous in spirit in all she did; anything that you gave her, you knew she’d take care of it.”

That included innumerable people to whom she served as a mentor.

Louie Ortiz-Fonseca met Casarez in 1996 while both were interviewing for jobs at the same agency, and they quickly forged a friendship. Casarez went on to become a central figure in his life, he said.

“I don’t know many people who can move in and out of different groups as easily as she could,” Ortiz-Fonseca said. “People wondered how we were so close because we had such different backgrounds, but that was never something that separated us. The connection was just always there.”

Ortiz-Fonseca said Casarez helped him “discover [his] magic,” introducing him to new experiences, people and places. She was there for celebrations like birthdays and holidays and would drop everything to be by his side in times of heartbreak.

“Gloria saved lives and guided lives,” Landau said. “There are plenty of young people who need mentors and there are plenty of us who can mentor. If we want to carry on Gloria’s torch, we need to move forward with the mentoring work she did.”

Cook noted that, while many in the community knew Casarez from her professional responsibilities, her authenticity spanned all settings, professional and personal.

“If you knew Gloria in any capacity, you knew her entirely,” Cook said. “She was a really loving person, who was compassionate and had an amazing sense of humor. She always helped me see the humor in every situation.

And she was an incredibly passionate person. That’s one of the things I loved about her most: If she set out to do something, she did it, all in. She set out to change the world, and she did it.”

Casarez’s skill as a passionate, dynamic leader always impressed Dressel.

“She could bring people together and move people forward,” she said. “I loved and respected her. She was a complete warrior on every level.”

In addition to Dressel, Casarez is survived by her mother, Elisa Gonzalez, great-aunt Teresa Rodriguez, godparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends, and was predeceased by her great-uncle Henry Rodriguez. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 24 at Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N. Broad St. A community memorial is also being planned.

Memorial contributions can be made to the West Chester University Foundation in support of the Gloria Casarez Leadership Scholarship at P.O. Box 541, West Chester, PA 19381. Make checks payable to WCU Foundation, with “In Memory of Gloria Casarez” in the memo line. n

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Tale of Two Districts PFT Jordan and SRC Green square off on teachers contract Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.

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...Corbett’s SRC is clearly not interested in negotiating with the educators of Philadelphia.

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e have to be honest. We are torn by the actions of the School Reform Commission (SRC) in unilaterally changing the terms of the PFT contract to require teachers to make copayments into their health plan. What we are not torn over is our take on the way in which the SRC chose to exert its management authority. Collective bargaining can only work in an environment in which labor and management mutually respect the bargaining rights of the other. The SRC clearly has little respect for the PFT. For those who argue that the PFT showed little respect for the SRC in failing to come to the table with an accommodation on health care co-pay, we say that the SRC has a responsibility to act as more than

corporate manager looking to the bottom line but as fiduciary for students and parents of the school district; not simply steward of the taxpayers but steward of a strong, healthy relationship between teachers, students and parents. The SRC action, particularly in its sneak attack on the contract in the beginning of the school year, failed in its broader mission and it should think twice before it does so again.

Now that we have said our piece, we will give you, our readers, an opportunity to read the words of the main protagonists in this battle, Jerry Jordan, president of the PFT, and Bill Green, chairman of the SRC. As we said, we are torn. So read their unadulterated words and you decide.

Jerry Jordan: “In August 2013, the PFT put contract proposals on the table that would have saved the district millions of dollars and averted the current budget deficit. Governor Corbett’s SRC is clearly not interested in negotiating with the educators of Philadelphia. They have been spending vast amounts of time and money on unionbusting strategy sessions with their lawyers, and not nearly enough time working with

Bill Green, chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission.

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the PFT on how to restore programs and services to our schoolchildren.

“The SRC has been quick to point out what school district employees in nearby counties pay for health care. What they fail to mention is that Philadelphia’s educators are paid far less than their suburban counterparts, and spend thousands of their own dollars for classroom supplies for their students.

“The SRC’s tactics are shameful, and they know it. Why else would they promote the SRC meeting with a barely legible newspaper advertisement rather than their standard practice of putting it on the District’s web site?

“This is not an effort by the SRC to address the fiscal crisis. This is the Corbett administration’s attempt to vilify the PFT in order to distract from his horrible record on education funding and boost his chances of re-election. Today’s action is a lastditch effort by the Corbett administration to weaken the standing of our educators with Philadelphia’s parents and community members.”

William J. Green: “For almost two years, the School Dis-

By modifying the benefits, the district can stave off additional cuts... trict of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) have been in contract negotiations, seeking a labor agreement that positions our schools for long-term stability and invests in student success.

“After 21 months, we remain far apart on key issues. Meanwhile, due to the district’s devastating funding crisis, conditions in our schools are worsening. Stories about overcrowded classrooms, understaffed schools and dwindling to nonexistent resources and services have become frighteningly common.

“Our students need more, and they need it now.

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Tale of Two Districts Continued from page 1 for individual coverage and up to $200 for family coverage — the district will be able to reallocate funds and restore resources that our schools currently lack.

“The benefit contributions are on par with those paid by other district employees, other city unions and school districts across the state and nation. By modifying the benefits, the district can stave off additional cuts and create a new source of recurring revenue.

“These funds will make a tangible, immediate difference to a school like 3,000-student Northeast High School, which was trying to function with an operating budget of $15,000 — about $5 per student.

“The heart of our schools is the relationship between adults and children. As we have laid off

5,000 staffers over the last two years, forcing those who remain to do more with less, that relationship has frayed. Many teachers have made tremendous sacrifices, frequently taking money from their own wallets to buy whatever was needed for students, whether it was crayons, copy paper, or enough food for a family to make it through the holiday weekend.

They did it because it needed to be done, and because of their actions, we’ve been able to hold the system together for as long as we have.

“This is also why we cannot wait for others to do the right thing for our children. When and where we can act, we must.”

Their words. Now you decide.

Archbishop Wood Continued from page 12 happy for him and proud of how he played. He made three perfect throws down the stretch. That’s all you can ask of him.”

Clements said that he felt his team might have had a physical advantage down the stretch.

His team was the better squad on offense and defense over the game’s last several minutes. “I think maybe we were fresher,” he said. “We rotated a lot of players on offense and defense. I think it made a difference.”

Infante will certainly feel justified by taking some criticism from playing such a tough nonleague schedule. Yet, he did the same thing last year and the team met the challenge with

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“One of my first seasons here we went 10-0 and then lost when it counted,” Infante said. “I said then I would never schedule like that again. I want to play the best teams every week to prepare us for our Catholic League and postseason play.”

Said Swift; “It’s a gift [Infante] has given us with this scheduling opportunity. We all know what this does for us long term.

We love it and understand it. I know our tough schedule, even though we had some losses and could have played better, helped us tonight against La Salle.”

Religious Betrayal Former members mourn plan to sell city’s first black Catholic church

by Sheila Simmons Robert Dixon (left) and Barney Richardson are longtime parishioners of St. Peter Claver, the city’s first African-American Catholic church, which the archdiocese closed down.

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he doors to the first African-American Catholic church in the city of Philadelphia closed for good this month.

Saint Peter Claver first opened its doors at the 12th and Lombard site more than 120 years ago, to serve blacks who until 1942 were banned from attending other Catholic churches in the city.

The site in 1892 hosted the world’s third National Black Catholic Congress. And as recently as 2010, it drew national guests for a feast day recognizing Saint Peter Claver, who baptized 300,000 African slaves in South America and fought to end the slave trade.

With newly painted walls and a white marble sanctuary bearing the names of leaders who had worked to support the church, Father Stephen Thorne, director of the archdiocesan Office for Black Catholics, had told visitors that day, “It was absolutely wonderful to see it looking so beautiful,” according to a story in CatholicPhilly.com.

But the days of the building as a place for Catholic teachings are coming to an end.

In a letter dated Oct. 6, 2014, from Rev. John J. McIntyre, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia, long-time members were informed the Archdiocese of Philadelphia would sell the site.

“While the Center has been able to financially support its programs via a grant from the Black and Indian Missions in recent years, it does not have the resources to absorb costs associated with necessary deferred maintenance for the buildings,” the letter reads. Given that and other factors, “the Saint Peter

Claver Center for Evangelization will be closed by the Archdiocese effective October 31.”

Net proceeds from the sale of the building would be “designated to support ongoing ministry to black Catholics throughout the Archdiocese,” it said.

Yet former parishioner Barney Richardson asks, “How can you reach out to black people when you’re tearing down their foundation … This is a place to maintain the history of blacks and the mother church.”

Those who grew up in the church cite a series of betrayals over the years.

The church was originally founded through Katherine Drexel and supported by an independent order of priests. The archdiocese eliminated it as a parish in 1985 due to decreased membership and changing racial demographics, but allowed it to operate as the Shrine of Our Lady of Victories for twice-weekly, then once-a-week, masses.

Citing a further drop in worshipers there, the archdiocese made the site into the St. Peter Claver Evangelization Center.

Richardson wants to see the site maintained as a museum or historic landmark, and says he is willing to swap his own property, a store in the 1500 block on South Street, for it. Others who have long supported the site’s historic roots now wearily tell Richardson they’ve “fought so many times” for it, to which he responds, “I say it’s never too late.”

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First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 10:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price.

Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff.

The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale.

The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be a sum sufficient to pay all Sheriff’s costs including advertising, all taxes, water rents and municipal claims due to the City of Philadelphia. If there is no other bid price above the opening bid price, the property shall be sold by the auctioneer to the attorney on the writ at that price.

The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadel-

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phia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly.

No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County.

The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine.

The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale.

All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale.

Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) brtweb.phila. gov for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address.

Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-686-1483 and to its website philadox.phila.gov and to its website at http://philadox. phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The BRT # refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006

Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter.

N.B. - For the benefit of our non-professional readers who do not understand the meaning of the letters and figures following the defendant’s names, we make the following.

EXPLANATION The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions.

The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ.

Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions.

Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him.

Very truly yours, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

02853 $122,286.03 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-302 636 East Wensley Street 19134-1828 33rd wd. 756 Sq Ft OPA#331129400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas P. Marion C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00869 $40,066.46 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-303 5411 Pine Street 19143-1416 60th wd. 1600 Sq Ft PRCL# 603086900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacob Hasis C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 02214 $100,017.43 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-304 6276 Large Street 191492704 54th wd. 1222 Sq Ft OPA#541178600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard Cavanagh C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00932 $119,770.46 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-305 4242 Griscom Street 191244544 23rd wd. 986 Sq Ft OPA#232426900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim Tai Nguyen a/k/a Tai Kim Nguyen C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01966 $29,736.00 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-306 6036 North Water Street 19120-2015 61st wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#612485900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Regina Mears Corbin C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03622 $108,278.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-307 1603 West Sparks Street 19141-1917 17th wd. 1337 Sq Ft OPA#171278100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Danyell Battle; Donnell Lewis C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02630 $61,642.17 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-308 2600 West Cheltenham Avenue 19150-1311 50th wd.

1800 Sq Ft OPA#501271600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barry Brown C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00555 $145,050.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-309 122 Daly Street 19148 39th wd. 816 Sq Ft OPA#391096700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Justin W. Sullivan C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01052 $216,322.51 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1411-310 7168 N. Uber Street 19138 10th wd. 1194 Sq Ft OPA#101149900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael A. Myles C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02019 $81,352.13 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1411-311 230 Tree Street 19148 39th wd. 928 Sq Ft OPA#391089500

IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Albert Howlett C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00790 $165,229.55 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1411-312 3224 North 5th Street 19140 19th wd. 1959 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Situate on the West Side of Fifth Street at the distance of one hundred ninety-six feet nine inches Northward from the North Side of Allegheny Avenue OPA#193134500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Terrance Cohen C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01716 $75,625.79 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1411-313 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Unit 929 19130 District 9 725 Sq Ft BRT#888073134 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RES. CONDO. 5+STY MASONRY Joyce Anderson, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02777 $58,757.75 Samantha D. Cissne, Esquire 1411-314 1634 South Newkirk Street 19145 36th wd. 910 Sq Ft BRT#364372100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alison Rehman, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Barbara Rehman, Deceased and Daniel Rehman, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Barbara Rehman, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03959 $73,829.58 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-315 4607 Princeton Avenue 19135 41st wd. 1470 Sq Ft BRT#412060100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Overwise, as Administrator of the Estate of Maureen P. Overwise, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 00717 $144,184.75 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-316 534 East Mayland Street 19144 59th wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#592128000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith Phillips, Solely in his Capacity as Heir of Ruby J. Phillips, Deceased and The Unknown Heirs of Ruby J. Phillips, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02004 $36,097.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-317 1026 East Sydney Street 19150-3423 50th wd. 1518 Sq Ft OPA#502467100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Djeffly Dinvil a/k/a Djeffy Dinvil C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02422 $233,373.26 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-318 8232 Bayard Street 191501702 50th wd. 1578 Sq Ft OPA#501204300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sandra L. Mitchell C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03279 $358,060.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP

1411-319 916 Brighton Street 191114129 53rd wd. 1220 Sq Ft OPA#532248100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sufia Akhter C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02886 $125,429.02 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-320 3414 Emerald Street 191342011 45th wd. 903 Sq Ft OPA#452337400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dave Litchfield a/k/a David Litchfield C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03224 $76,557.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-321 5011 North Franklin Street 19120-3111 49th wd. 1240 Sq Ft OPA#491231400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kimberly Spady C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04450 $88,160.00 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-322 249 North Creighton Street 19139 44th wd. 1114 Sq Ft BRT#441122300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jeffery Duldulao and Joseph Klimczak C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01995 $61,092.11 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-323 8603 Alicia Street 191154101 63rd wd. 1498 Sq Ft OPA#632229600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daniel P. Cashman; Lynn A. Cashman a/k/a Lynn Ann Cashman a/k/a Lynn E. Cashman C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00548 $163,156.67 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-324 233 North Simpson Street 19139 34th wd. 1140 Sq Ft BRT#343093600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robin Watson C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00615 $45,200.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-325 2040 Bonaffon Street a/k/a 2040 Bonnafon Street 191421606 40th wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#403058300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyra McFarland C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00696 $79,099.90 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-326 1668 East Walnut Lane 191381609 10th wd. 1164 Sq Ft OPA#102154500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aaron Gibson, Jr. C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04334 $121,803.15 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-327 717 South Chris Columbus #703 a/k/a 717 S. Chris Columbus Blv Unit 703 19147 2nd wd.

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NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a

www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, November 4, 2014 1409-312 1829 North 28th Street 19121 32nd wd. 779 Sq Ft BRT#323202100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Charles Wells and Tanya Wells C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 02109 $90,924.46 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-301 6325 Ditman Street 191353201 41st wd. 1084 Sq Ft OPA#411233400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gadjimourad Aigounov; Rukizhat Aigounov C.P. October Term, 2013 No.

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hold Unit OPA#888064622 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM UNIT William Cook C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03084 $393,855.00 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-328 1718 West Moyamensing Avenue 19145 26th wd. 2240 Sq Ft BRT#871535840 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Donald C. Maddox C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00757 $198,338.30 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-329 3054 Goul Street a/k/a 3054 Gaul Street 191344310 25th wd. 1216 Sq Ft OPA#251394100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Shephard a/k/a Michael J. Shephard, Sr. C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02165 $26,732.63 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-330 1417 South 53rd Street 191434903 51st wd. 1132 Sq Ft OPA#511227300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daisy D. Powell f/k/a Daisy D. Neal C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04628 $37,725.64 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-331 4849 North 15th Street 191412103 13th wd. 1294 Sq Ft OPA#132050400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shanise T. Butler C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00022 $43,612.95 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-332 6333 Vandike Street 191353305 41st wd. 992 Sq Ft OPA#411346000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank McClain C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 02908 $77,525.45 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-333 2421 South Percy Street 19148-3729 39th wd. 940 Sq Ft OPA#393444500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith T. McAteer; Piyaporn Chunmuang C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02854 $72,771.40 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-334 4704 Hartel Avenue 191363307 65th wd. 1046 Sq Ft OPA#651188000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cristi A. Boothman C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01173 $185,529.27 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-335 1517 Page Street a/k/a 1517 West Page Street 191212317 32nd wd. 1122 Sq Ft OPA#321022100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Devon C. Burt C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00399 $108,565.53 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-336 4818 East Alcott Street 191354102 41st wd. 750 Sq Ft OPA#411089100 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melodi Mari Arroyo; Michael Rivera C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00409 $89,351.24 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-337 7039 Buist Avenue 191421720 40th wd. 1472 Sq Ft PRCL# 406254000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Natasha N. Davis C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 03779 $135,490.54 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-338 1354 Unruh Avenue 191114920 53rd wd. 1212 Sq Ft OPA#532065100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ana Burgos; Marta L. Diaz C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01970 $104,954.92 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-339 7602 Sherwood Road 19151 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343-2388-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eboni Boyd, Jamahal Boyd a/k/a Jamahal C. Boyd C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01284 $127,847.49 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-340 309-313 Arch Street Unit 209 19106-1810 5th wd.

1037 Sq Ft OPA#888058716 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM UNIT Andi Pesacov a/k/a Andrea M. Pesacov C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04237 $372,490.69 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-341 1732 South 65th Street 191421321 40th wd. 1410 Sq Ft OPA#403000700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jerome T. Clements C.P. January Term, 2008 No. 00725 $53,892.64 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-342 6331 Edmund Street 191353311 41st wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#411407200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Laura Ferrell C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04236 $87,351.77 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-343 5008-5010 Ditman Street Premises “A” 19124 62nd wd.

624 Sq Ft BRT#622436000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John T. Cooper, III a/k/a John Cooper, III C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04153 $79,107.30 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-344 4545 Milnor Street 19124 23rd wd. 1204 Sq Ft BRT#231046700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Paul Tracy and Susan Gerner-Tracy C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00554 $91,388.46 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-345 5426 North 11th Street (a/k/a Eleventh Street) 19141-3005 49th wd. 1320

Sq Ft OPA#493070500, BRT# 129N2-259 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosalyn B. Beard C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 2182 $65,900.31 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-346 7531 Wheeler Street 191531323 40th wd. 1080 Sq Ft OPA#404214320 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wayne J. Wilson, Sr.; Charmaine McPhatter C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 00242 $94,601.70 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-347 1933 East Cambria Street 19134-3519 25th wd. 1192 Sq Ft OPA#252100800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William J. Matczak; Arlene A. Wolf C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00940 $40,401.18 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-348 2915 Memphis Street 19134 25th wd. 1152 Sq Ft BRT#251-4884-00 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melissa Cooke C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 2141 $80,440.21 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-349 3997 Stevenson Lane a/ka/ 3997 Stevenson Street 191142015 66th wd. 1386 Sq Ft OPA#661288063 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yuet-ying Chan C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 04279 $149,961.10 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-350 6224 Jefferson Street 191513444 34th wd. 1760 Sq Ft OPA#342063400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sherri RazaqThiers C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03212 $145,548.04 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-351 1431 Hellerman Street 191492742 54th wd. 1620 Sq Ft OPA#541125000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sharmaine Mickens C.P. December Term, 2010 No. 01767 $121,564.82 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-352 902 Emily Street 191482304 39th wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#393288700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Azhar Jamal C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 02606 $91,710.65 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-353 2320 South Bancroft Street 19145-4314 26th wd. 1100 Sq Ft OPA#261302300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert L. Moyta; Patricia L. Moyta C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00982 $143,166.43 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-354 126 North Robinson Street 19139-2312 34th wd. 832

Sq Ft OPA#341182300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bernard Savage a/k/a Bernard H. Savage C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03393 $57,136.65 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-355 9956 Woodfern Road 19115 58th wd. 1107 Sq Ft BRT#581269200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Miriam A. Cook C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01397 $163,402.68 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-356 3517 East Crown Avenue 19114-1916 66th wd. 1260 Sq Ft OPA#661230300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Daniel J. Rosario, Jr.; Linda J. Rosario C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 03976 $84,796.39 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-357 1719 Reed Street 19146 36th wd. 1184 Sq Ft BRT#365351800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cheryl Ali a/k/a Cheryl A. Jamison C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02545 $108,282.40 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-358 7947 Woolston Avenue 19150 50th wd. 1164 Sq Ft BRT#502070700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michelle N. Lyde C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 000244 $170,124.99 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-359 7134 Akron Street 19149 54th wd. 896 Sq Ft BRT#542429200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Salazar and Julieth A. Salazar C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 001177 $138,303.98 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-360 2142 N. 58th Street 19131 52nd wd. 1704 Sq Ft BRT#522224800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Annis Holmes C.P. January Term, 2010 No. 000667 $77,102.61 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-361 8030 Ditman St Unit 71-L a/k/a 8030 Ditman St. Unit 71 19136 65th wd. 708 Sq Ft BRT#888650971 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Erik Caplan C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 03576 $55,853.43 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-362 333 East Van Kirk Street 19120 35th wd. 1196 Sq Ft BRT#352108100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Mbenda Fall C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 03341 $120,560.27 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-363 3471 Eden Street 19114 57th wd. 1224 Sq Ft

BRT#572163143 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING William B. Jenkins a/k/a William Jenkins and June M. Jenkins C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03164 $55,880.38 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-364 7242 Algon Avenue 191114115 53rd wd. 1286 Sq Ft OPA#532434300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lee Ann Schiller C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 02140 $163,627.52 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-365 1238 Patrick Henry Place 19122-4011 14th wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#141177100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stanley Ingram C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 01655 $108,098.66 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-366 3600 Conshohocken Avenue Unit 701 19131 52nd wd.

1251 Sq Ft; Together with all right, title and interst to a 0.747% undivided interest of, in and to the Common Elements, as more particularly set forth in the Declaration OPA#888520452 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Najeeb Sheikh C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01010 $160,569.69 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-367 8128 Moro Street 191362620 64th wd. 914 Sq Ft OPA#642053600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter Joseph Diem; Shelle Grant Diem C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 01936 $121,128.55 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-368 4145 Whiting Place 19154 66th wd. 1296 Sq Ft OPA#662596600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard Jaroski C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 03631 $12,837.98 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1411-369 1928 South 21st Street 191452721 48th wd. 1220 Sq Ft OPA#482137200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlayne Copes C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 03141 $57,283.23 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-370 338 E. Albanus Street 19120 42nd wd. 1200 Sq Ft BRT#421148900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY William Harris, Jr. a/k/a William Harris C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02739 $126,159.41 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-371 1424 Lardner Street 191493223 54th wd. 970 Sq Ft OPA#541027700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Deborah Dewar

C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01098 $62,732.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-372 5848 Montrose Street 19143 3rd wd. 1028 Sq Ft BRT#033077100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Josie Johnson and Gloria Hawks C.P. February Term, 2008 No. 03922 $51,319.15 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-373 3314 Cottman Avenue 19149 55th wd. (formerly the 35th wd.) 1548 Sq Ft; BRT#551514400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Kimberley A. Rice C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03975 $137,049.06 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-374 1828 South 12th Street 19148 39th wd. 1038.5 Sq Ft BRT#394597100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Patricia Ann Pinto C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00383 $180,494.69 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-375 15043 Liberty Lane 19116 58th wd. 2449 Sq Ft BRT#583085059 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Chris Druding a/k/a Chris C. Druding a/k/a Christopher Druding a/k/a Christopher C. Druding; Donna Druding a/k/a Donna M. Druding C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00145 $159,171.08 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-376 6051 Agusta Street 19149 53rd wd. 1138 Sq Ft BRT#53-1260100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Amon Isakov; Lyubov Isakova C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03217 $125,678.60 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-377 7026 Walker St 19135 55th wd. 2250 Sq Ft BRT#55-2319700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dana Stevenson a/k/a Dana M. Stevenson a/k/a Dana Mary Stevenson; Robert Stevenson a/k/a Robert M. Stevenson C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01281 $50,808.34 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-378 1101 Hortter St n/k/a 1101 E Hortter St 19119 50th wd.

4083 Sq Ft BRT#502345100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Derrick Addison; Maria Addison C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01098 $111,622.76 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1411-379 3218 Holly Road 19154 66th wd. 3750 Sq Ft BRT#663016500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Brendan Flannery and Eleanor M. Flannery C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02385 $130,454.19 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire

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1411-380 5377 Hazelhurst Street 19131 52nd wd. (formerly part of 34th wd.) 1120 Sq Ft BRT#521064700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Karen Battle, Michael Battle and Karen Battle C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02471 $71,878.03 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-381 1408 Kerper Street 19111 53rd wd. 1774.3 Sq Ft BRT#532095400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Chico Velasco and Joan Velasco C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03560 $155,492.90 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-382 154 Ridgefield Road 19154 66th wd. 2904 Sq Ft BRT#662-3184-00 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING Loretta Longmore C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 5261 $31,723.56 Robert H. Dickman, Esquire 1411-383 6425 Eastwood Street 19149 35th wd. 1140.3 Sq Ft BRT#541275100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Jeffrey Vargas C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00953 $85,483.58 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-384 1435 Ellsworth Street 19146 36th wd. 149660 Sq Ft BRT#365263000 Rochelle Sprouel a/k/a Rochellee Sprouel C.P. January Term, 2010 No. 00915 $166,653.39 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-385 1527 Robbins Avenue 19149 35th wd. 1795 Sq Ft BRT#541-087000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Latonia Owens C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04697 $135,053.43 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-386 6360 West Montgomery Avenue 19151 34th wd. 1700.00 Sq Ft BRT#344071700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MAS. + OTHER Elsie Poland C.P. November Term, 2012 No. 01810 $160,578.49 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-387 2101 East Chelten Avenue 19138 17th wd. (formerly part of the 50th wd.) 2137.5 Sq Ft BRT#17-1-3407-00 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/OFFSTR 2 STORY MASONRY Chante Clarke, Administratrix of the Estate of Welton Clarke, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00746 $68,220.17 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-388 871 North 20th Street 19130 15th wd. 1321.45 Sq Ft BRT#151082100 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 3 STORY MASONRY Donald Watkins, Jr., Real Owner and Original Mortgagor, Donald Watkins,

Sr., Real Owner and Original Mortgagor and Delena Watkins, Original Mortgagor C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01491 $409,558.56 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-389 1629 Elaine Street 19150 50th wd. 2341.65 Sq Ft BRT#501496200 IMPROVEMENTS: APT 2-4 UNITS 2 STORY MASONRY Kimberly Hall C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01958 $171,154.74 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-390 2015 Gerritt Street 19146 26th wd. 672 Sq Ft BRT#363014500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Brian Spencer C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01664 $81,433.77 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-391 1719 North Edgewood Street 19151 34th wd. 1246.5 Sq Ft BRT#342226900 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Vendetta Tolliver C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03599 $66,132.06 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-392 2122 Wallace Street 19130 15th wd. 1432.25 Sq Ft BRT#152080000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STORY MASONRY Gregory L. Devaney C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03507 $469,719.26 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-393 509 East Godfrey Avenue 19120-2123 35th wd. 2351.82 Sq Ft OPA#351102900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George Henderson; Darlene Henderson C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 03563 $150,300.73 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-394 5549 Larchwood Avenue 19143-1313 60th wd. 1177.5 Sq Ft OPA#604138300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kelly J. Brooks; Constance D. Brooks C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02451 $50,180.04 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-395 7104 Woolston Avenue 191382034 10th wd. 1721.35 Sq Ft OPA#102409300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Hayat Sayed; Tyrell Austin C.P. December Term, 2011 No. 01124 $86,662.43 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-396 7927 Temple Road 191502115 50th wd. 1642.50 Sq Ft BRT#501093600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Mangum C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 1530 $42,660.12 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-397 35 South Ashmead Place 19144 12th wd. 1246.56 Sq Ft BRT#123085100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lisa M. Carter

and The United States of America C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01216 $36,045.42 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-398 937 Watkins Street 19148 1st wd. 65100 Sq Ft BRT#012331200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nicole Capparella C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04816 $189,447.00 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-399 575 Van Kirk Street 19120 35th wd. 120000 Sq Ft BRT#352117000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anitra Meredith C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00308 $75,653.93 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-400 1036 West York Street 19133 37th wd. 82857 Sq Ft BRT#371360400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Carmen Santiago f/k/a Carmen Gonzalez C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 003727 $64,131.06 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-401 4044 K Street 19124 33rd wd.

112500 Sq Ft BRT#332313000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Myryan A. Moreno a/k/a Myryan E. Avila a/k/a Myrany A. Lizama C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02096 $55,168.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-402 2621 South 13th Street 19148 39th wd. 92800 Sq Ft BRT#394430500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Alberto and Deborah A. Jerdon-Varallo C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01831 $258,952.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-403 723 Daly Street 191483247 39th wd. 707 Sq Ft OPA#393097300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jesse Hayes C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05400 $127,431.28 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-404 5210 Cedar Avenue 19143 46th wd. 1696 Sq Ft BRT#462056100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregg L. Savage C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00202 $96,882.39 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-405 4211 North Reese Street 19140-2530 43rd wd. 845.47 Sq Ft OPA#433229000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Victor Resto C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00031 $41,944.74 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-406 2303 South Front Street 19148 39th wd. 886.82 Sq Ft BRT#391224500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gina Gautieri C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04092 $119,526.67 KML Law

Group, P.C. 1411-407 2649 S 67th St 191422705 14th wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#406040100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sylvestine M. Freeman C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 01083 $115,297.55 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-408 7464 Rhoads Street 191512922 34th wd. 1626.9 Sq Ft OPA#343156200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carla Watts C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 02976 $147,558.29 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-409 1720 South Chadwick Street 19145-2225 36th wd. 742 Sq Ft OPA#365185100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Emilio Pandika; Aster Setiadi C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02492 $74,035.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-410 3429 Brighton Street 191492007 55th wd. 1630.49 Sq Ft OPA#551376700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos SerranoGenova C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02200 $64,081.91 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-411 5251 Oakland Street 191241813 62nd wd. 1784.52 Sq Ft OPA#621403100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leonard Glasgow C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00936 $120,510.64 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-412 1327 Unruh Avenue 19111 53rd wd. 1788.9 Sq Ft BRT#532076900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John M. Ofori C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02162 $127,795.59 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-413 5023 North 8th Street 191203105 49th wd. 950.55 Sq Ft PRCL# 491257700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kim S. Malone C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03600 $77,131.24 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-414 4408 Teesdale Street 19136 41st wd. 1523.2 Sq Ft BRT#412091100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George R. Eckert C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03739 $135,191.12 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-415 6300 Chester Avenue 191422016 40th wd. 520.96 Sq Ft OPA#401227500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Hao Huu Nguyen; Hanh Thi Huynh C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01477 $84,220.92 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-416 117 North 53rd Street 19139 44th wd. 1596 Sq Ft

BRT#441164200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leah M. Lewis C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03870 $143,151.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-417 2614 South 65th Street 191422813 40th wd. 1462.50 Sq Ft OPA#406002500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fanta S. Darbo C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03222 $89,318.35 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-418 2043 South Redfield Street 19143-5902 40th wd. 1077.78 Sq Ft OPA#401065600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyneshia Bethea a/k/a Tyneisha Bethea C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02652 $104,680.22 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-419 1365 Dyre Street 191241930 62nd wd. 1465.49 Sq Ft OPA#621008700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose L. Perez C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 00211 $103,957.38 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-420 1155 Elbridge Street 191115519 53rd wd. 1624 Sq Ft OPA#531095500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tayibatou Achabl Brym; Tomalona Akakpo Ayewanou C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01197 $149,961.73 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-421 435 Martin Street 191283423 21st wd. 6417.48 Sq Ft OPA#212090400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Matthew W. Reece; Patricia A. Santucci C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01218 $111,599.44 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-422 6507 Belfield Avenue 19119 22nd wd. 4032 Sq Ft BRT#221250400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ella Fleming, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Mavis M. Wade, Deceased; Linda Fleming, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Mavis M. Wade, Deceased; Joan Wade and Unknown Heirs of Mavis M. Wade, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04709 $28,640.06 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-423 1802 South 15th Street 191452201 48th wd. 976 Sq Ft OPA#481164000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nicole D. McEwan C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 02884 $137,334.39 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-424 1324 Kings Place 19122 20th wd. 1620 Sq Ft BRT#141145300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Scott A. Mitchell and Adrienne Mitchell C.P. March Term, 2012 No.

02372 $134,677.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-425 1129 Bingham Street 19115 63rd wd. 5064.60 Sq Ft BRT#632126800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joan B. Ryan and Jeffrey M. Ryan C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01791 $265,574.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-426 2926 W. Thompson Street 19121 29th wd. Land Area: 990 Sq Ft; Improvement Area: 1650 Sq Ft OPA#292205910 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING Aldeshawn Atkins and Rosheen Jones C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 03140 $36,322.20 Robert J. Wilson, Esq., Wilson Law Firm 1411-427 1146 South Clifton Street 19147 2nd wd. 547.20 Sq Ft BRT#021569200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Xu Ri Zheng C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03557 $95,771.75 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-428 726 Kendrick Street 19111 63rd wd. 2919.40 Sq Ft BRT#632018600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Herman L. Frankel a/k/a Herman Frankel C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02055 $173,811.60 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-429 8113 Crispin Street 19136 64th wd. 1950 Sq Ft BRT#642023700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christopher Rodriguez C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 01846 $166,046.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-430 1142 Rosalie Street 19149 35th wd. On Southwesterly Side of Rosalie Street; 62 ft 0 in Northwestward from the Northwesterly side of Frontenac Street; Front: 15’4” Depth: 59’0” OPA#352034600 Eugene G. Woods C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00525 $107,457.76 Louis P. Vitti, Esq. 1411-431 4118 North 7th Street 191402512 43rd wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#433311100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Freddie Gabriel C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02469 $14,577.01 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-432 4715 Melrose Street 19137 45th wd. 1212 Sq Ft BRT#453448300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Duffy and Stephen Scialdone, Solely in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Cecilia Scialdone a/k/a Cecelia Scialdone, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01758 $48,898.66 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1411-433 3610 Emerald Street 19134 45th wd. 1229.1 Sq Ft BRT#452344600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Abneesha Jennings C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04082 $46,361.53 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-434 5113 Wayne Avenue 19144 12th wd. 4004.00 Sq Ft; On Northeasterly Side of Wayne Avenue; Northwestwardly from the Northwesterly side of Manheim Street; Front: 25’11-1/4” Depth: 177’1/8” OPA#123214300 Leon D. Chambers C.P. June Term, 2010 No. 01040 $181,684.07 Louis P. Vitti, Esq. 1411-435 6313 North 18th Street 19141 17th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#172270500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samantha N. Young C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 00504 $155,806.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-436 907 Kenmore Road 191513313 34th wd. 1280 Sq Ft OPA#344343800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyree Strickland C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 03169 $113,071.94 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-437 1310 Wagner Avenue 19141 49th wd. 2000 Sq Ft BRT#493018000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Wiggins C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 02170 $83,205.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-438 6220 Bouvier Street 19141 17th wd. 988.35 Sq Ft BRT#172227500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Regina Kitchen and John Mosley C.P. October Term, 2009 No. 02493 $82,424.80 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-439 1407 Princeton Avenue 191114213 53rd wd. 2875 Sq Ft OPA#532291100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert M. Berger; Linda Sullivan C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01236 $96,211.21 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-440 1304 Gilham Street 19111 53rd wd. 1068.53 Sq Ft BRT#531160000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alexander Liapitch a/k/a Alexandre Liapitch C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 0177 $114,668.08 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-441 7901 Ditman Street 191363237 65th wd. 1606.05 Sq Ft OPA#651249000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Venneri C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00008 $151,704.17 Phelan Hallinan, LLP

1411-442 7900 Pickering Street 19150 50th wd. 2369.70 Sq Ft BRT#501223300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Warren Nichols, Administrator and Harvey G. Johnson, Executor C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00906 $65,873.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-443 447 East Washington Lane 19144-1630 59th wd. 1600 Sq Ft OPA#592149800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sylvester Roger Callender, in His Capacity as Heir of Mary A. Callender a/k/a Mary Callender, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Mary A. Callender a/k/a Mary Callender, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03885 $108,033.75 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-444 619 Shawmont Avenue 191283124 21st wd. 2400 Sq Ft OPA#214054400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Manjinder Pandher C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02625 $208,752.27 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-445 3524 Sheffield Street 191363519 64th wd. 1816.28 Sq Ft OPA#642219500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Matthew Gorman C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 03428 $127,259.57 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-446 6614 Revere Street 19149 55th wd. 1458.72 Sq Ft BRT#55-15306-08 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Ballentine C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 002771 $145,508.99 Leon P. Haller, Esquire 1411-447 2545 South Dewey Street 19142 40th wd. 1096 Sq Ft BRT#402073500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wilberta M. Singleton a/k/a Wilberta M. Carter C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02462 $51,743.79 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-448 1400 Kings Place 191223415 20th wd. 1800 Sq Ft OPA#202223600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Preston Wakefield, Jr., in His Capacity as Heir of Preston Wakefield, Sr., Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest from or Under Preston Wakefield, Sr., Deceased C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 00269 $159,383.05 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-449 5016 North Smedley Street 19141-1521 17th wd. 1530

Sq Ft OPA#172166900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rasheed Williams, in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Florine Williams-White a/k/a Florine White a/k/a Florine Williams-White a/k/a Florine Williams; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Florine Williams-White a/k/a Florine White a/k/a Florine Williams, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01519 $59,769.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-450 1768 South Avondale Street 19142 40th wd. 1745.70 Sq Ft BRT#401186900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Debra L. Smith C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 02262 $54,914.28 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-451 319 Unruh Avenue 191114654 35th wd. 3850 Sq Ft OPA#353127000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kimberly E. Williams; Christopher G. Williams C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 02659 $258,851.31 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-452 1821 N. Gratz Street 19121 32nd wd. 2017.72 Sq Ft BRT#321237701 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Belinda Lawrence C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03134 $44,839.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-453 1820 Tomlinson Road 19116 58th wd. 2788.80 Sq Ft BRT#582196400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kevin T. Blocker and Tina M. Blocler C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02710 $88,653.96 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-454 1326 Farrington Road 19151 34th wd. 2240 Sq Ft BRT#343344700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Robert Marshall, Jr. C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02302 $72,026.57 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-455 5911 Elsinore Street 19120 35th wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#352301700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Marc L. Barnhill C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01020 $143,505.29 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-456 1931 Wolf Street 191483627 26th wd. 800 Sq Ft OPA#26224600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maria Lampe a/k/a Maria J. Lampe a/k/a Maria J. Lampr; Fred W. Lampe a/k/a Fred Lampe a/k/a Frank W. Lampe, III a/k/a Frederick W. Lampe, III C.P. February Term, 2010 No. 01295 $167,311.55 Phelan Hallinan, LLP

1411-457 2004 South Garnet Street 19145 48th wd. 672.60 Sq Ft BRT#481298300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Unknown Heirs, Executors and Devisees of the Estate of Latanyan Hudwell C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02575 $82,730.19 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-458 750 North 19th Street 19130 15th wd. 1993.20 Sq Ft BRT#151052901 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Luz E. Benetiz C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03736 $67,795.52 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-459 1224 South 51st Street 19143 55th wd. 1530 Sq Ft BRT#511181700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Herman E. Royal and Linda E. Royal C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04817 $208,436.54 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-460 110-112 West Wildey Street 19123-1613 5th wd. 795 Sq Ft/612 Sq Ft OPA#057180000; OPA#057180100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kerrianne Hafer C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02068 $268,223.77 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-461 3600 Neill Drive (f/k/a 1 Winding Drive) 19131 52nd wd. 170755.00 Sq Ft; On Northeasterly Side of Presidential Blvd at the point of intersection with extended centerline of Winding Drive; Front: Irregular, Depth: Irregular OPA#88-3086101 IMPROVEMENTS: OFF/BLDG W/GAR. MASONRY BLDG Monroe, L.P. a Pennsylvania Limited Partnership C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01631 $5,242,875.20 Gretchen M. Santamour, Esquire/Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 1411-462 4205 Bleigh Avenue 191363912 41st wd. 1162.75 Sq Ft OPA#412152500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY David T. Slabek, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 03257 $107,106.86 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-463 1119 East Wilt Street 19125 18th wd. 684.49 Sq Ft BRT#181184900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James P. Meehan, Jr. C.P. November Term, 2012 No. 01114 $98,958.57 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-464 5616 Hazel Avenue 191431936 46th wd. 952.50 Sq Ft OPA#463020000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dorene E. Lee, Individually and in capacity as Heir of Ella Foster, Deceased, Individually and in Capacity as Heir of Ella Foster, Deceased; Thelma

Y. Lee, Individually and in capacity as Heir of Ella Foster, Deceased, Individually and in Capacity as Heir of Ella Foster, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Ella Foster, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01794 $55,308.56 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-465 9584 State Road Unit B 19114 88th wd. 1056 Sq Ft BRT#888651261 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Aron Guttin C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00995 $151,947.36 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-466 5367 Eadom Street 191371315 45th wd. 1098 Sq Ft OPA#453403600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patrick Welch, in his Capacity as Heir of Ruth A. Welch, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Ruth A. Welch, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00997 $84,130.14 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-467 7252 Mansfield Avenue 19138 10th wd. 2145.99 Sq Ft BRT#102356300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Christina J. Lee C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 03339 $190,924.12 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-468 7542 Woodbine Avenue 19151-2720 34th wd. 1633.5 Sq Ft OPA#343200000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dana H. Williams C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01199 $93,847.41 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-469 961 Bridge Street 191241743 35th wd. 1320 Sq Ft OPA#351157100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregory Capers C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00895 $119,366.73 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-470 2962 Jasper Street 19134 25th wd. 702 Sq Ft BRT#252537500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose Vilella C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 02564 $57,608.80 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-471 2040 Tyson Avenue 191491809 54th wd. 3698.20 Sq Ft BRT#54-2-0779-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Young Hae Park and Stone Park C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01128 $143,441.55 BARBARA A. FEIN, ESQUIRE 1411-472 736 and 738 Maple Lane a/k/a 738 Maple Lane 19124 42nd wd. 8400 Sq Ft

BRT#421067810 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Bolivar Reyes C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 02761 $227,026.48 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-473 1943-1945 Gerritt Street 19146 36th wd. 1516.50 Sq Ft BRT#884006243 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Vallard Renewal C.P. April Term, 2008 No. 4152 $37,490.12 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1411-474 1837 East Monmouth Street 19134-3553 25th wd. 889.80 Sq Ft BRT#252127900 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tamilla Dovaman, as sole owner C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 03642 $44,887.08 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh L. Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-475A 2145 E. Clearfield Street 19134 25th wd. 784 Sq Ft OPA#252-245100 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475B 2006 E. Somerset Street 19134 25th wd. 894.97 Sq Ft OPA#25-2-018300 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475C 1943 E. Tioga Street 19134 45th wd. 1219.27 Sq Ft OPA#45-2-111700 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475D 3222 Potter Street 19134 33rd wd. 707 Sq Ft OPA#33-1413200 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475E 3267 Joyce Street 19134 45th wd. 728 Sq Ft OPA#45-2-

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292200 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475F 2516 N. Water Street 19125 31st wd. 810 Sq Ft OPA#311-025000 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475G 2749 Helen Street 19134 25th wd. 1135.44 Sq Ft OPA#25-2514800 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475H 1921 Clarence Street 19134 45th wd. 716.92 Sq Ft OPA#45-2-124300 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-475I 2078 E. Stella Street 19134 25th wd. 705.74 Sq Ft OPA#25-2-191500 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILDING(S) Spruce Urban Properties, LLC and Donald G. Haney C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00219 $603,169.54 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-476 1742 North Robinson Street 19151 60th wd. 1726.87 Sq Ft BRT#342291900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barbara Walden, an unmarried woman C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00871 $66,265.29 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-477 3409 Fairmont Avenue 19104 24th wd. 825.00 Sq Ft BRT#243006800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Darlene Maria Lawson C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03370 $24,664.95 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A.

Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-478 539 Anchor Street 19120 35th wd. 1136 Sq Ft BRT#351275300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Zarwolo M. Gatei and Margaret Gatie a/k/a Margaret K. Boan C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01483 $71,831.94 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-479 5784 Dunlap Street 191313412 4th wd. 1365 Sq Ft BRT#043238300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony D. Staples C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 3794 $95,647.89 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-480 632 Devereaux Avenue 19111 35th wd. 2380.50 Sq Ft BRT#352197210 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nadia Darwish and Abed Hamed C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01364 $130,460.62 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-481 5624 Boyer Street 19138 12th wd. 1225.60 Sq Ft BRT#122246300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Guess, Jr. C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 02760 $51,449.94 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-482 1216 Alcott Street 19149 35th wd. 1102.50 Sq Ft BRT#352067300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pablo Camacho C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01104 $50,679.90 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-483 2517 North 28th Street 19132 28th wd. 1308.72 Sq Ft BRT#281099600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Terry Bryant, as sole owner C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03243 $65,065.38 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia,

Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-484 6924 Forrest Avenue 19138 10th wd. 1500 Sq Ft BRT#102517100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Martisha Alexisse Hobson, as sole owner C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 2140 $117,546.89 Scott A. Dietterick, Esq., Kimberly A. Bonner, Esq., Joel A. Ackerman, Esq., Ashleigh Levy Marin, Esq., Ralph M. Salvia, Esq., Jaime R. Ackerman, Esq., Jana Fridfinnsdottir, Esq., Brian Nicholas, Esq., Denise Carlon, Esq., Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1411-485 69 East Seymour Street 19144 12th wd. 910 Sq Ft BRT#121036700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tracie L. Tate C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00878 $22,317.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-486 2750 South 18th Street 19145 26th wd. 972.07 Sq Ft BRT#262084400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs of Samuel P. Risolia, Deceased and Francesca Risolia, solely in her capacity as Heir of Samuel P. Risolia, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03172 $205,828.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-487 6514 Dorel Street 19142 40th wd. 1143.10 Sq Ft BRT#406344700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angela S. Robinson C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01939 $56,332.33 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-488 5552 Angora Terrace 19143 51st wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#513072400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph Harmon and Marlene Harmon C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 00987 $38,795.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-489 1024 Tomlinson Road 19116 58th wd. 3540 Sq Ft BRT#582193900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Torren Phillips and Mary L. Phillips C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 03727 $242,537.78 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-490 5923 Vine Street 19139 4th wd. 728.50 Sq Ft BRT#042169200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joy M. Hutchinson C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03764 $37,509.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-491 6228 Gillespie Street 19135 55th wd. 1447.2 Sq Ft

BRT#552426100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Richard C. Figaniak C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03716 $95,906.20 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-492 5128 North Carlisle Street 19141 17th wd. 1617 Sq Ft BRT#172034900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Theresa Brumskill C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 03249 $83,179.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-493 5322 Greenway Avenue 19143 51st wd. 1597.5 Sq Ft BRT#512088600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stanley J. Gravitt C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02093 $45,975.42 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-494 2810 Chase Road 19152 57th wd. 2819.86 Sq Ft BRT#571068300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kwanza A. Waters a/k/a Kwanza A. Howard C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03297 $200,152.24 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-495 1903-1/2 West 72nd Avenue 19138 10th wd. 1050 Sq Ft OPA#101298700 Jasmine S. Williams C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01479 $24,989.16 W. Lyle Stamps, Esquire; Lightman & Manochi 1411-496 3232 Emerald Street 19134 45th wd. 1262.88 Sq Ft BRT#452333600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pennington 189 Management, LLC C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 03282 $83,877.24 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-497 5417 Chester Avenue 191434913 51st wd. 1900 Sq Ft OPA#514127400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacob Hasis C.P. May Term, 2012 No. 03163 $103,312.30 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-498 2515 West Sterner Street 19132 28th wd. 652.5 Sq Ft BRT#281390600 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Michael Antonyuk and Marina Petcherskaia C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02299 $34,245.98 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-499 5420 Tackawanna Street 19124-1411 62nd wd. 1132.29 Sq Ft OPA#622305800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose M. Figueroa; Ericka Ramos C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02877 $81,493.12 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-500 2911 South Felton Street 19142 40th wd. 1203.2 Sq Ft BRT#402117500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2

STORY MASONRY Beatrice H. Swen C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02569 $45,329.31 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-501 1173 East Sharpnack Street 19150 50th wd. 2704.7 Sq Ft BRT#502335500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Johnnie F. Cotton C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04349 $111,660.16 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-502 12132 Barbary Road 19154 66th wd. 2291.64 Sq Ft BRT#663191400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MAS. + OTHER Mark Super, Nicole Ricci and Mark Super C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03874 $195,987.11 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-503 4972 Whitaker Avenue 19124 23rd wd. 1389.39 Sq Ft BRT#233071300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Janet De Jesus C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02315 $92,540.33 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-504 1432 Englewood Street 19111 53rd wd. 2351 Sq Ft BRT#532-3561-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Benozich, Carla A. Benozich, and Anthony S. Benozich C.P. June 2013 Term, No. 00955 $161,758.71 Kristine M. Anthou 1411-505 2828 Tremont Street 19136 57th wd. 2907 Sq Ft BRT#572056015 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Steven Wisniewski C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02297 $181,554.42 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-506 2429 South 8th Street 19148 39th wd. 854 Sq Ft BRT#393244500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Bartkowski Investments, LLC C.P. January Term, 2009 No. 001231 $148,186.10 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-507 115 East Upsal Street 19119 22nd wd. 5520 Sq Ft BRT#221091000 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 3 STORY MASONRY Annette Nixon C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00443 $347,586.63 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1411-508 3600 Conshocken Avenue, Unit 406 19131 52nd wd. 940 Sq Ft BRT#888520408 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Emerald Randolph and Brian D. Randolph C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00698 $85,355.00 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-509 151 West Grange Avenue 19120-2444 61st wd. 1383.30 Sq Ft OPA#612074300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jeanine A. Fulginiti a/k/a J. Fulginiti;

James R. Fulginiti C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02910 $106,001.34 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-510 6244 Charles Street 19135 55th wd. 1554.44 Sq Ft BRT#552222400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pasquale J. Concilio C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04196 $102,560.71 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-511 7158 Tulip Street 19135 65th wd. 1344 Sq Ft BRT#651296900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Grzegorz Fracz C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00289 $87,902.93 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-512 1545 South Lambert Street 19146 36th wd. 599.72 Sq Ft BRT#363258300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nuah Gweh C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 001212 $131,295.74 Bradley J. Osborne 1411-513 1707 Faunce Street 191113431 56th wd. 2437.35 Sq Ft OPA#561407700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Derrick Stroud C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 03296 $205,881.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-514 10911 Modena Drive 19154 66th wd. 1799 Sq Ft BRT#662061200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Angelo Carrasquillo a/k/a Angelo L. Carrasquillo and Christina Carrasquillo C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02627 $49,732.64 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-515 4426 Marple Street 19136 65th wd. 1147.36 Sq Ft BRT#651-094100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Stacey A. Anderson C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02000 $94,253.25 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-516 5136 Cedar Avenue 191431510 46th wd. 1725.00 Sq Ft OPA#462054800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robin DickersonRhone, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Executor of the Estate of Robert Thomas Dickerson a/k/a Robert T. Dickerson; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Robert Thomas Dickerson a/k/a Robert T. Dickerson, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 01837 $101,885.38 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-517 653 North 57th Street 191314805 4th wd. 1440.00 Sq Ft OPA#043086800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wiliam Seibert

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C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03107 $127,438.17 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-518 3128 North Sheridan Street 19133-2441 37th wd. 716.50 Sq Ft OPA#372039600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynette Douglas C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02132 $31,237.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-519 2717 Parrish Street 191301201 15th wd. 1005.00 Sq Ft OPA#152300500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bruce Singer a/k/a Bruce H. Singer C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02097 $339,912.49 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-520 109 Devereaux Avenue 19111 35th wd. 1393.98 Sq Ft BRT#353000230 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Juan M. Diaz C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04076 $158,055.89 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-521 2437 East Somerset Street 19134 25th wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#251014000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Amanda J. Dowling C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02537 $131,597.02 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-522 4735 Hartel Avenue, a/k/a 4735 Hartel Street 191363306 65th wd. 1203.19 Sq Ft OPA#651197900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter H. Dabbs C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00131 $116,770.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-523 2138 South Iseminger Street 19148 39th wd. 990 Sq Ft BRT#394409910 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Katie Antinore and Michael Antinore C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02240 $147,464.88 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-524 11808 Millbrook Road 191543711 66th wd. 1803.00 Sq Ft OPA#662230200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Erick McKee C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02467 $86,217.96 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-525 9001 Ridge Avenue, Unit 18 19128 21st wd. 1056 Sq Ft BRT#21-4146918 Subject To Mortgage Police and Fire Federal Credit Union IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL TOWNHOUSE Fred M. Greene and Helen C. Greene C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01077 $11,169.96 Stefan Richter, Esquire 1411-526 419 N. Front Street 19123 5th wd. 663 Sq Ft OPA#055010205 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILD-

ING Life Equities Corp C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00031 $411,815.23 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-527 1909 East Venango Street 19134 45th wd. 1058.68 Sq Ft BRT#45-2150900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Brandon Reeves C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01907 $72,761.16 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-528 1457 West Chew Street 19141 17th wd. 1551.22 Sq Ft BRT#17-1101100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Felma E. Brown a/k/a Felma Elfreida Brown C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02631 $85,327.04 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-529 3320 Mount Vernon Street 19104 24th wd. 752.36 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#242057300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mohammadreza Aghanazari C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03620 $128,179.22 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-530 2826 South Hutchinson Street 19148 39th wd. 1066.53 Sq Ft; Row 1 Sty Masonry BRT#395243525 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ruth Guerriero, Executrix of the Estate of Alfred Guerriero, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03816 $195,832.25 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-531 1332 South 31st Street 19146 36th wd. 997.12 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#362274900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Henry R. Yarbrough C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 01477 $71,016.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-532 6519 Dorcas Street 19111 53rd wd. 2229.85 Sq Ft; S/D W B/G 2S Masonry BRT#531205100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Wanda Cottom C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 00668 $166,953.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-533 348 East Shedaker Street 19144 12th wd. 1260.00 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#121014900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tamara Pinkhasova C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00763 $66,756.47 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-534 2706 Dothan Plaza 19153 40th wd. 1799.10 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Masonry BRT#405906600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

DWELLING Annamarie Bell C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01649 $147,246.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-535 1734 North 26th Street 19121 29th wd. 945.00 Sq Ft; Row 3 Sty Masonry BRT#324109100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Williard M. Cooper and William McLaughlin C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 00111 $102,681.48 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-536 2661 East Norris Street 19125 31st wd. 840 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#313014000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen Groves, Administrator of the Estate of George Groves, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03507 $111,333.39 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-537 4314 McMenamy Street 19136 65th wd. 2250 Sq Ft; S/D W B/G 1 Sty Masonry BRT#651164820 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kelly A. Adcox C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00757 $55,137.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-538 628 Solly Avenue 191111951 63rd wd. 2812.50 Sq Ft OPA#631349500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Amann C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00772 $208,868.03 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-539 2431 East Cumberland Street 19125-3104 31st wd. 1778 Sq Ft OPA#314039000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy R. Benston C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03973 $320,395.72 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-540 424 North 65th Street 191514003 34th wd. 1875 Sq Ft OPA#343122400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gayle Puller C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00993 $64,307.26 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-541 12632 Chilton Road 191541407 66th wd. 1985 Sq Ft OPA#663328300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stephen Spadaro a/k/a Stephen I. Spadaro C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01021 $181,981.09 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-542 1384 North 76th Street 191512823 34th wd. 2240 Sq Ft OPA#343309000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tara Theresa Bligen a/k/a Tara Bligen C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01752 $168,955.74 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-543 6919 Theodore Street 191422106 40th wd. 982.50 Sq Ft

OPA#406241000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Colalongo, Individually and in His Capacity as Executor of the Estate of Carmelia Didonato a/k/a Carmella Colalongo C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02830 $75,911.34 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-544 1129 Kerper Street 191114925 53rd wd. 2527.84 Sq Ft OPA#532103700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Amal J. Abdelrahman C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04233 $166,667.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-545 1347 Dyre Street 19124 62nd wd. 1510.32 Sq Ft; Row Conv/Apt 2 Sty Masonry BRT#621007800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Damon E. Cunningham C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03479 $110,565.77 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-546 2827 North 12th Street 19133 37th wd. 1358 .00 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#372251200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Lawrence D. Sampson, Known Surviving Heir of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Steve O. Sampson a/k/a Lewis Sampson, Known Surviving Heir of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00907 $60,319.88 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-547 6729 Oakland Street 19149 54th wd. 1663.65 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Masonry BRT#542388700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven J. Galinsky and Megan Jane Galinsky C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04388 $185,050.46 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-548 10028 Ferndale Street 19116 58th wd. 2824.00 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Mas. +O BRT#582471700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lissy Joy C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02529 $210,813.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-549 607 East Comly Street 191201238 35th wd. 995.12 Sq Ft OPA#352149300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Martha Kirina; Charles Kamau C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03555 $54,648.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-550 12628 Knights Place 191543111 66th wd. 1617.30 Sq Ft OPA#663364600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Bobbie Jo Snyder; John Burton C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02614 $149,379.67 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-551 1532 Emily Street 191453028 48th wd. 588.00 Sq Ft OPA#481117600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Teresa Wilmore; William Wright, IV a/k/a William Wright C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00178 $162,353.24 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-552 2757 North 20th Street 191322602 11th wd. 990.0 Sq Ft OPA#111253900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wilfredo Adorno; Milagros Adorno C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00632 $43,976.71 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-553 6124 Walnut Street 191393704 46th wd. 1413.72 Sq Ft OPA#031070400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rodney L. Brown C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00286 $57,703.51 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-554 3105 Guilford Street 191524503 64th wd. 2225.00 Sq Ft OPA#641182200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bridget Donohoe C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01937 $227,612.75 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-555 1978 Plymouth Street 191382722 10th wd. 858 Sq Ft OPA#101312900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John W. Griffin C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03520 $56,880.92 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-556 833 East Willard Street 191341928 33rd wd. 1140 Sq Ft OPA#331090200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Narayah Bueno, in Her Capacity as Heir of Taina Baez, Deceased; Anthony Rivera, in His Capacity as Heir of Taina Baez, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Taina Baez, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01173 $17,140.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-557 5111 Valley Street 191241429 62nd wd. 732 Sq Ft BRT#622331000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carlos Madeira C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 02314 $117,780.19 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-558 4717 A Street 191204401 42nd wd. 1590 Sq Ft OPA#421297200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maribel Lugo;

Fernando Garcia C.P. June Term, 2009 No. 00083 $126,248.38 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-559 3024 East Thompson Street 19134 25th wd. 904 Sq Ft BRT#251259800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Gawronski and Jacqueline C. Hale C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03656 $153,227.23 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-560 6704 Oakland Street 19149 54th wd. 1116 Sq Ft BRT#542373900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Fei Yan Chen Ng C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01058 $57,004.34 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-561 1646 South Wilton Street 19143 51st wd. 1020 Sq Ft BRT#512060100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Corey Nevada Burrell and Sharon Ann Burrell C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01764 $85,763.90 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-562 936 East Sanger Street 19124 35th wd. 1336 Sq Ft BRT#351204600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Merly DeCastro C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01106 $97,097.41 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-563 3527 Vinton Road 19154 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663130400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Timothy Andrew West C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 01343 $178,413.57 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-564 1307 North 55th Street 191314222 4th wd. 1158 Sq Ft OPA#041300500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James A. Nelson; Robert L. Glover C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02661 $46,932.33 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-565 4251 Neilson Street 191244921 33rd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#332530700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raquel Torres C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01144 $78,260.42 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-566 7246 Marsden Street 19135 41st wd. 1344 Sq Ft BRT#412382100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Phyllis M. Wildonger and Steven J. Wildonger C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01747 $111,548.54 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-567 201-59 North 8th Street, Unit 214 19106 88th wd.

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C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03107 $127,438.17 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-518 3128 North Sheridan Street 19133-2441 37th wd. 716.50 Sq Ft OPA#372039600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynette Douglas C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02132 $31,237.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-519 2717 Parrish Street 191301201 15th wd. 1005.00 Sq Ft OPA#152300500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bruce Singer a/k/a Bruce H. Singer C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 02097 $339,912.49 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-520 109 Devereaux Avenue 19111 35th wd. 1393.98 Sq Ft BRT#353000230 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Juan M. Diaz C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04076 $158,055.89 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-521 2437 East Somerset Street 19134 25th wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#251014000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Amanda J. Dowling C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02537 $131,597.02 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-522 4735 Hartel Avenue, a/k/a 4735 Hartel Street 191363306 65th wd. 1203.19 Sq Ft OPA#651197900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Walter H. Dabbs C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 00131 $116,770.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-523 2138 South Iseminger Street 19148 39th wd. 990 Sq Ft BRT#394409910 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Katie Antinore and Michael Antinore C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02240 $147,464.88 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1411-524 11808 Millbrook Road 191543711 66th wd. 1803.00 Sq Ft OPA#662230200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Erick McKee C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02467 $86,217.96 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-525 9001 Ridge Avenue, Unit 18 19128 21st wd. 1056 Sq Ft BRT#21-4146918 Subject To Mortgage Police and Fire Federal Credit Union IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL TOWNHOUSE Fred M. Greene and Helen C. Greene C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01077 $11,169.96 Stefan Richter, Esquire 1411-526 419 N. Front Street 19123 5th wd. 663 Sq Ft OPA#055010205 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL BUILD-

ING Life Equities Corp C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 00031 $411,815.23 Jeffrey W. Soderberg, Esq., Mandracchia & McWhirk, LLC 1411-527 1909 East Venango Street 19134 45th wd. 1058.68 Sq Ft BRT#45-2150900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Brandon Reeves C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01907 $72,761.16 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-528 1457 West Chew Street 19141 17th wd. 1551.22 Sq Ft BRT#17-1101100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A.J. Halpin, III, Esquire, Personal Representative of the Estate of Felma E. Brown a/k/a Felma Elfreida Brown C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02631 $85,327.04 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1411-529 3320 Mount Vernon Street 19104 24th wd. 752.36 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#242057300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mohammadreza Aghanazari C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03620 $128,179.22 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-530 2826 South Hutchinson Street 19148 39th wd. 1066.53 Sq Ft; Row 1 Sty Masonry BRT#395243525 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ruth Guerriero, Executrix of the Estate of Alfred Guerriero, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03816 $195,832.25 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-531 1332 South 31st Street 19146 36th wd. 997.12 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#362274900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Henry R. Yarbrough C.P. May Term, 2009 No. 01477 $71,016.41 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-532 6519 Dorcas Street 19111 53rd wd. 2229.85 Sq Ft; S/D W B/G 2S Masonry BRT#531205100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Wanda Cottom C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 00668 $166,953.19 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-533 348 East Shedaker Street 19144 12th wd. 1260.00 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#121014900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tamara Pinkhasova C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00763 $66,756.47 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-534 2706 Dothan Plaza 19153 40th wd. 1799.10 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Masonry BRT#405906600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

DWELLING Annamarie Bell C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01649 $147,246.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-535 1734 North 26th Street 19121 29th wd. 945.00 Sq Ft; Row 3 Sty Masonry BRT#324109100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Williard M. Cooper and William McLaughlin C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 00111 $102,681.48 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-536 2661 East Norris Street 19125 31st wd. 840 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#313014000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen Groves, Administrator of the Estate of George Groves, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03507 $111,333.39 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-537 4314 McMenamy Street 19136 65th wd. 2250 Sq Ft; S/D W B/G 1 Sty Masonry BRT#651164820 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kelly A. Adcox C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00757 $55,137.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-538 628 Solly Avenue 191111951 63rd wd. 2812.50 Sq Ft OPA#631349500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John Amann C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00772 $208,868.03 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-539 2431 East Cumberland Street 19125-3104 31st wd. 1778 Sq Ft OPA#314039000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy R. Benston C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03973 $320,395.72 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-540 424 North 65th Street 191514003 34th wd. 1875 Sq Ft OPA#343122400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gayle Puller C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00993 $64,307.26 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-541 12632 Chilton Road 191541407 66th wd. 1985 Sq Ft OPA#663328300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stephen Spadaro a/k/a Stephen I. Spadaro C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01021 $181,981.09 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-542 1384 North 76th Street 191512823 34th wd. 2240 Sq Ft OPA#343309000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tara Theresa Bligen a/k/a Tara Bligen C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01752 $168,955.74 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-543 6919 Theodore Street 191422106 40th wd. 982.50 Sq Ft

OPA#406241000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Louis Colalongo, Individually and in His Capacity as Executor of the Estate of Carmelia Didonato a/k/a Carmella Colalongo C.P. September Term, 2012 No. 02830 $75,911.34 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-544 1129 Kerper Street 191114925 53rd wd. 2527.84 Sq Ft OPA#532103700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Amal J. Abdelrahman C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04233 $166,667.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-545 1347 Dyre Street 19124 62nd wd. 1510.32 Sq Ft; Row Conv/Apt 2 Sty Masonry BRT#621007800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Damon E. Cunningham C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03479 $110,565.77 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-546 2827 North 12th Street 19133 37th wd. 1358 .00 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#372251200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Lawrence D. Sampson, Known Surviving Heir of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Steve O. Sampson a/k/a Lewis Sampson, Known Surviving Heir of Patricia A. Lewis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00907 $60,319.88 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-547 6729 Oakland Street 19149 54th wd. 1663.65 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Masonry BRT#542388700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Steven J. Galinsky and Megan Jane Galinsky C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 04388 $185,050.46 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-548 10028 Ferndale Street 19116 58th wd. 2824.00 Sq Ft; Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Mas. +O BRT#582471700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lissy Joy C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02529 $210,813.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-549 607 East Comly Street 191201238 35th wd. 995.12 Sq Ft OPA#352149300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Martha Kirina; Charles Kamau C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03555 $54,648.78 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-550 12628 Knights Place 191543111 66th wd. 1617.30 Sq Ft OPA#663364600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Bobbie Jo Snyder; John Burton C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02614 $149,379.67 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-551 1532 Emily Street 191453028 48th wd. 588.00 Sq Ft OPA#481117600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Teresa Wilmore; William Wright, IV a/k/a William Wright C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00178 $162,353.24 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-552 2757 North 20th Street 191322602 11th wd. 990.0 Sq Ft OPA#111253900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wilfredo Adorno; Milagros Adorno C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00632 $43,976.71 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-553 6124 Walnut Street 191393704 46th wd. 1413.72 Sq Ft OPA#031070400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rodney L. Brown C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00286 $57,703.51 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-554 3105 Guilford Street 191524503 64th wd. 2225.00 Sq Ft OPA#641182200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bridget Donohoe C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01937 $227,612.75 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-555 1978 Plymouth Street 191382722 10th wd. 858 Sq Ft OPA#101312900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John W. Griffin C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03520 $56,880.92 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-556 833 East Willard Street 191341928 33rd wd. 1140 Sq Ft OPA#331090200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Narayah Bueno, in Her Capacity as Heir of Taina Baez, Deceased; Anthony Rivera, in His Capacity as Heir of Taina Baez, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms or Associations Claiming Right, Title, or Interest From or Under Taina Baez, Deceased C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01173 $17,140.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-557 5111 Valley Street 191241429 62nd wd. 732 Sq Ft BRT#622331000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carlos Madeira C.P. January Term, 2013 No. 02314 $117,780.19 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-558 4717 A Street 191204401 42nd wd. 1590 Sq Ft OPA#421297200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maribel Lugo;

Fernando Garcia C.P. June Term, 2009 No. 00083 $126,248.38 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-559 3024 East Thompson Street 19134 25th wd. 904 Sq Ft BRT#251259800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Gawronski and Jacqueline C. Hale C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 03656 $153,227.23 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-560 6704 Oakland Street 19149 54th wd. 1116 Sq Ft BRT#542373900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Fei Yan Chen Ng C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01058 $57,004.34 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-561 1646 South Wilton Street 19143 51st wd. 1020 Sq Ft BRT#512060100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Corey Nevada Burrell and Sharon Ann Burrell C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01764 $85,763.90 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-562 936 East Sanger Street 19124 35th wd. 1336 Sq Ft BRT#351204600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Merly DeCastro C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01106 $97,097.41 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1411-563 3527 Vinton Road 19154 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663130400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Timothy Andrew West C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 01343 $178,413.57 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-564 1307 North 55th Street 191314222 4th wd. 1158 Sq Ft OPA#041300500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James A. Nelson; Robert L. Glover C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02661 $46,932.33 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-565 4251 Neilson Street 191244921 33rd wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#332530700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raquel Torres C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01144 $78,260.42 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1411-566 7246 Marsden Street 19135 41st wd. 1344 Sq Ft BRT#412382100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Phyllis M. Wildonger and Steven J. Wildonger C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01747 $111,548.54 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire 1411-567 201-59 North 8th Street, Unit 214 19106 88th wd.

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Thompson C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00908 $92,314.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-612 7015 East Roosevelt Boulevard 19149 55th wd. Approximate Size: 232’10-1/2”x75’00” OPA#882173100 Subject to Mortgage Subject To Rent Yes (tenants) IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL BUILDING Cui Tran and Loan Truong Trustee of the 7015 E. Roosevelt Boulevard Trust C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 001023 $817,424.69 Robert A. Badman, Esquire 1411-613 400-14 West Hortter Street Unit 703 19119 22nd wd.

1448 Sq Ft; All that certain unit in the property known named and identified in the Declaration Plan referred to below as “Germantown Manor Condominium” a condominium located at 400-14 West Hortter Street in the City and County of Philadelphia and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which has heretofore been submitted to the provisions of the Unit Property Act of Pennsylvania’ Act of July 3, 1963, P.L. 196, by the Recording in the Office of the Recorder of Deed of a Declaration dated 8/16/79 and recorded 8/16/79 in Deed Book DCC 2034 page 1 and amended

by Amendment to Declaration dated 9/19/79 and recorded 9/20/79 in Deed Book DCC 2065 page 547 a Declaration Plan dated 8/16/79 and recorded 8/16/79 and Deed Book DCC 2034 page 68 and a Code of Regulations dated 8/16/79 and recorded 8/16/79 in Deed Book DCC 2034 page 23, being and designated on said Declaration Plan as Unit Number 703 as herein set forth and more fully shown in such Declaration Plan and Declaration together with a proportionate undivided interest in common elements (as defined in such declaration of 3.23 percent).

BRT#888220237; PRCL# 50 N 15-184 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Michelle Jones C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 01593 $13,517.21 Hal A. Barrow, Esquire 1411-614 1120 South Wilton Street 19143 51st wd. 1470 Sq Ft; Semi Det 2 Sty Masonry BRT#511211700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Talib M. Muhammad C.P. August Term, 2010 No. 04776 $87,119.14 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-615 6239 Walnut Street 19139 3rd wd. 2560 Sq Ft

OPA#031064100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kirby W. Ames C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 2289 $78,807.62 Lauren Berschler Karl, Esq. 1411-616 2835 Benner Street 19149 62nd wd. 1224 Sq Ft; Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry BRT#621154300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Irina Rubinov and Gregory Yusupov C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01118 $116,476.80 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-617 1314 North 76th Street 19151 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343305500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harold Delcham C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 03638 $165,954.15 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-618 417 Tree Street 19148 39th wd.

1072 Sq Ft; Row 2 Sty Masonry BRT#392127100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Susan J. McAllister C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01490 $55,095.32 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1411-619 2845 Benner Street 19149 62nd wd. 1224 Sq Ft BRT#621154800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Fausto Abreu C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 00178 $124,470.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-620 4081 Higbee Street 19135 62nd wd. 1068 Sq Ft BRT#622206900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Barry Williams C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 04697 $94,805.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-621 3221 West Norris Street 19121 32nd wd. 1410 Sq Ft BRT#323083400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael B. Jones C.P. February Term, 2013 No. 02538 $70,002.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1411-622 3925 Henry Avenue 19129 38th wd. 3800 Sq Ft BRT#383134500 Subject To Mortgage Luzerne Bank, formerly Luzerne National Bank; Date 5/4/01; Instrument No. 50251521 Amount: $271,600.00 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE DWELLING Teresa O. Bittenbender by virtue of a writ of execution filed

by Luzerne Bank, formerly Luzerne National Bank C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 02002 $239,501.16 Hourigan, Kluger, & Quinn, PC

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Tresses and Dresses and Wigs and Wishes Paula Abdul topped the list of celebrities attending this heartwarming benefit gala

by HughE Dillon The Second Annual Wigs and Wishes Gala was held at Lucien’s Manor in Berlin, New Jersey, on Sunday, Oct. 5. It was created by celebrity stylist and salon owner Martino Cartier to raise awareness and funds for the nonprofit organization Friends Are By Your Side (FABYS). Proceeds will help provide wigs and hair enhancement solutions for women and children battling cancer and hair loss, as well as grant wishes for children battling cancer. Mindy Grossman received the Heart of Gold Award for her philanthropy and commitment to FABYS. After the gala, a rocking afterparty was held in another ballroom. Over 300 additional guests paid $35 to attend the dance party with a surprise appearance by Renee Marino from the movie “Jersey Boys”.

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’Andre Swift is a sophomore football standout on defending champion St. Joseph Prep’s heralded football team. He excels at running back, wide receiver and as a punt and kickoff returner. He already has eight scholarship offers including ones from Penn State, Temple, Villanova and Delaware. But it’s safe to say that until recently the 5-foot-9 scatback wasn’t even 100 percent comfortable on his own team. “I was a little uncomfortable last year being a freshman and getting a lot of playing time on a team full of seniors and juniors,” he said. “I wanted to play, but I knew I was young and had time. I didn’t want any seniors to [resent] that I was a part of the team.”

Swift contended he still felt a little of this as this season began. But it’s safe to say after the Oct. 10 huge 35-31 win over La Salle, in which he ran for 92 yards and caught two passes for 24 and 37 yards on the game-winning fourth-quarter drive, that age is just a number to him. “It felt really great to come through for my team,” he said. “I definitely don’t think about being a sophomore anymore. I know my coaches and teammates believe in me and I believe in them. I feel like I really have improved and can help the team.

I don’t think anyone looks at me as a [young player anymore].” Swift said that even though he is known for his special teams and running prowess, his two huge late-game catches are no surprise. He said he works hard in practice on all types of pass-catching routes out of the backfield, in the slot or at split end in coach Gabe Infante’s complex no-huddle spread offense. “I work hard with [quarterback] Jack Clements every day,” he said. “I practice route running and catching the football and [footwork] needed to make runs after catches,” he said.

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On the first of his two catches, Swift caused more than half of the estimated 8,000 in attendance to rise on their feet as he leaped to catch a Clements pass on the right sideline to keep the game-winning drive alive. “It was a wheel route,” he said. “We practice it all the time but this was the first time I caught one in a game,” he said. “He put the throw to me perfectly. I knew he was coming to me when I looked back at him. I saw him put the ball up so I knew when to turn and go up for it.

That was a great moment for our offense.”

Prep (3-3) was able to drive down the field and score eventually on Clements one-yard run. La Salle (5-2), which came from behind to beat Archbishop Wood by an identical 3531 score Oct. 3, was on the other side of the outcome this time. The Explorers were threeand-out with just under four minutes left to play deep in their own territory, punted the football and never got it back. It appears that Clements, with five rushing touchdowns and five passing touchdowns in a win over Malvern and now La Salle, is playing his best football ever.

“I wanted the ball in my hands and coach [Infante] trusted me with it, so that feels great,” said Clements, who overcame a late second-quarter interception and thirdquarter fumble before helping his team come from behind to win. “A lot of people ask me about my running. I like to run the football.

I like to have it on me to be in a position to make plays. I’m not Chris Martin [last year’s state championship quarterback who now plays for Johns Hopkins] but I feel like I can move back there. After the fumble and we fell behind [31-21] no one was down. I think everyone knew we could stop them on defense and come back and score. Obviously, this was a huge win for us. “

Clements has been thrown to the wolves so to speak having to grow up in a hurry competing in losses to national powers Don Bosco Prep [N.J.], St. Joseph’s [N.J.], and St. Ignatius [Ohio] in succession before rallying for these two big wins. “I like the opportunity I’ve had with this team and this schedule,” Clements said. “I understand the big picture.

The hope is we will be playing our best football come Catholic League playoffs and hopefully more.”

Clements admits he was unnerved prior to the big game with the Explorers.

But it wasn’t because of the huge crowd or the consequences of winning or losing. It had to do with his predecessor.

“Usually Chris Martin texts me before the game and helps me get prepared,” he said. “He didn’t do that this time. I was a little disappointed. But then I saw him before the game. He ended up coming and said hello before the game.”

Clements impressed his coach with his play. He was not overmatched by La Salle quarterback Kyle Shurmur, a Vanderbilt commit. Shurmur was his

St. Joe’s Prep quarterback Jack Clements (#6) gets ready to the throw the ball. Photo by Sarah J. Glover

stellar self; he had no turnovers and threw for over 200 yards and two scores.

But Clements seemed to be his equal if not better on this night.

“I thought Jack was really good against La Salle,” said Infante. “I know people have been worried that he has played with so much pressure with the national schedule we’ve played. I’m not worried about that with Jack or anyone on the team. We know the deal here.

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La Salle College High School running back Jordan Meachum (#23) runs the ball during a game versus St. Joe’s Prep. Photo by Sarah J. Glover

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All-male dance company launches North American tour in Philly

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com If your idea of ballet involves tightly regimented routines featuring women in tutus pirouetting across the stage to the sounds of classical music into the eager and waiting arms of their overdressed (supposedly) hetero love interests for the delight of starched and stuffy theatergoers, you can be forgiven for being less than excited for yet another new ballet show. But don’t nod off or pack away your opera glasses just yet.

Ballet is about to get a much-needed

boost in energy and attitude when Dance Affiliates brings BalletBoyz, the critically acclaimed U.K. dance company, to Philadelphia for the launch of the company’s first North American tour through Oct. 25 at the Zellerbach Theatre.

Dancers and company members Edward Pearce and Matthew Sandiford said the group is excited to perform all over North America.

“We’ve been to New York before, two years ago, but this is the first time that we are traveling around and seeing the West Coast and the East Coast,” Pearce said.

“I’m looking forward to exploring America in general,” Sandiford added. “It’s my second time coming to America and my first time ever going to Canada. So I’m looking forward to seeing the world.”

Led by former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, the all-male dance troupe combines the energy and grace of classical and modern dance with music and film as the dancers perform two pieces created by internationally celebrated choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.

Nunn and Trevitt left the Royal Ballet

Company so they could collaborate with a wider range of talent and explore more modern influences.

“The reason they left the Royal Ballet is because they enjoyed mostly working with choreographers,” Pearce said. “That only happened maybe once or twice a year, if that. So it’s the real collaboration between choreographer and dancer that interested them. When they went off on their own and did their own shows, they created several new pieces every year. That was their main task, creating with a choreographer. They wanted to carry on PAGE 24

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with us guys, a new generation of dancers to really get that collaboration.”

If their popularity in the U.K. is any indication, their vision for the group is working very well, selling out theaters and garnering all kinds of praise for their distinctive blend of styles.

“That’s the interesting thing about BalletBoyz,” Pearce said. “We’ve all got very different and eclectic training. I’m kind of both — classically trained and contemporary trained. Some of us, especially one guy, hasn’t had any formal training at all. So he’s kind of picked it up as he’s gone along. The first piece you will see, classical training would help with that one. The second one is more about the natural flow of the body and getting down into the ground, which is quite unlike classical training.”

“I started dancing when I was 18 and I was specifically trained in contemporary dance,” Sandiford added. “I suppose we have certain classes in classical techniques but the main focus is the contemporary techniques. The beauty of BalletBoyz is that it just appeals to so many different audiences and so many genres of people. It doesn’t matter where in the world we would perform, there will always be an audience and a collection of people that would be interested in the work. BalletBoyz is very clever at appealing to so many different people and audiences with the use of multimedia, the difference in choreography that we perform and the versatility of us as

dancers.”

Pearce said the show’s elaborate production further adds to the company’s modern edge.

“What it shows you is the creation of the dance, which you don’t get with other dance companies,” Pearce said about the multimedia aspect of BalletBoyz. “What we wanted to show is how we came to these ideas and what you will see on the stage that evening. We wanted to show ourselves, the dancers, so the audience has

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BalletBoyz always has the added edge of being an all-male ballet company.

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“I think it’s just how different we are to any other company out there,” Pearce added about BalletBoyz’ appeal. “We have males dancing together and it doesn’t necessarily have to be homoerotic. It’s kind of showing a tenderness that other male dancers in other companies don’t really show.

It’s using the multimedia aspect that hasn’t really been done before. That adds to the whole production.”

Even though Pearce said the show isn’t necessarily homoerotic, he knows that the BalletBoyz (which has a considerable number of gay dancers in their ranks) appeals to, and will attract, a significant following of gay fans.

“We welcome that,” he said. “We make it accessible. Being 10 males really draws in the audiences, but when they come, hopefully the quality of the dancing is up there with other top contemporary dance companies. It’s not just selling out, just to show our bodies. We hope you think the same.” n

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Adam Hackel: Military man on making music and making a family How many of us would be willing to sacrifice our lives for an organization that didn’t want us? Lt. Col. Adam W. Hackel was willing to take that challenge, knowing that someday things would change and he’d be in a position to act as a leader and role model.

Life has thrown a number of challenges his way, which the military man has taken in stride — starting with the loss of his parents at a young age, to the realization that he was gay and embarking on a career where being LGBT was against policy. Despite having to hide a portion of his identity, Lt. Col. Hackel racked up quite a military career.

In his 20 years of service, he has spanned a full complement of key staff and command responsibilities. Upon commission into the U.S. Army Reserve Chemical Corps, he was first assigned as a Platoon Leader for a Dual Purpose (Smoke/DECON) Chemical Company, which he eventually went on to command. In 1998, he served in multiple staff lead roles for the 4/98th (CM) TASS Battalion and completed his four-year tour as the acting battalion commander. Following that assignment, he was selected to command the Logistics Support Company for the 98th Training Division.

In 2003, Hackel was cross-leveled to deploy with the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment to create the American Forces Network Iraq. During his tour, he served as the Deputy Commander AFN-Iraq, Chief of Command Information CJTF-7 and PAO TF 6/26 in Fallujah.

Upon his return to the States, Hackel served in an array of public-affairs posts, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 2012 and selected to command the 361st Public Affairs Operation Center at Fort Totten, N.Y. In May, he was appointed as the chief human-resource and personnel officer for the 78th Training Division at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. He received two Meritorious Service Medals and was honored by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps with the Honorable Order of the Dragon.

But lest you think Lt. Col. Hackel is all buttoned-up and regimented, his day job is something quite different. Dr. Adam W. Hackel Ed.D. (by day) is the director of instrumental music at Montgomery Middle School in Skillman, N.J. Hackel holds a bachelor’s of fine arts in conducting and orchestration from Tulane University, a master’s in educational administration from Kean University and a doctorate in educational leadership from Rowan University. He has also graduated from the Defense Information School and is a branch-qualified Chemical Officer and Master Resiliency Trainer. Oh, and did I mention that Hackel is married to his husband of 14 years, William Young, and that they have a daughter, Emma Hope?

PGN: Wow, there’s a lot to take in with you.

Let’s start with where you hail from.

AH: I kind of grew up all over. I moved

around quite a bit. I started off in Central New Jersey and in the seventh grade I went to a military boarding school in Wayne, Pa. PGN: Oh, Valley Forge Military Academy!

I grew up in Wayne, walking distance from the academy. I used to know a lot of the polo players.

AH: Oh yes! I was there from ’84 to ’90.

And then after my first active-duty tour I moved to New Jersey for 13 years, then my husband and I later moved to New Hope and then bought a house in Doylestown, where we live now.

PGN: Was your family military?

AH: Yes, all my uncles served in the Navy.

My father enlisted in the Marines at the age of 16 during World War II and drove a “Duck,” ferrying troops back and forth through enemy fire during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

PGN: When did you lose him?

AH: Both of my parents died when I was in high school, about three years apart, both from complications due to cancer.

30 pounds more than I do now. Happily, at VFMA, I joined a bunch of clubs, made friends and joined the track team. It was a good time in my life.

PGN: What’s a favorite memory with your parents?

AH: I was 13 when my dad died and 17 when I lost my mother. Both of my parents were older when they had me. I had a lot of pleasant memories with my father but one stands out. I’d found a kite that somebody had thrown away, just a cheap little five-and-dime kite, a piece of vinyl and a few sticks, that was ripped and broken.

My father was extremely handy. He was a mechanic by trade and loved building model boats and stuff. He loved fixing things so he took it home and repaired it and we went to the park and flew it. It sounds silly — something so small — but it was one of the truly resonant moments with my father. I remember being there with him, I remember the color of the kite, the shirt I was wearing, my dad sitting at his desk putting it

PGN: I always wondered what life was like for the cadets at VFMA. AH: It was an interesting beginning. I wasn’t the best student and was in the process of being held back for the second time.

The family decided something drastic had to happen because I wasn’t headed on a very good path. I went from an extremely permissive and liberal household to a very strict and regimented atmosphere. But I thrived in it and I went from getting Ds and Fs to being on the honor roll and going on to one of the top universities in the country.

PGN: What made the difference?

AH: I think being around people my age, many of whom were struggling with the same learning disabilities and trouble with academics that I was and seeing the potential of what I could be if I really tried.

Before that, if I didn’t do my homework I didn’t really care, but at Valley Forge, I’d see my friends who did well get rewarded.

It was something tangible to strive for. As a 12-year-old, I wasn’t deciding, Oh, I want to change my life around; it was, Oh, I want a pass to go off campus — little breadcrumbs that led me down the right path.

PGN: Any siblings?

AH: I have an older sister and an older brother and I used to have another brother but he passed away too.

PGN: Wow, you’ve dealt with a lot of loss.

AH: It was an interesting childhood.

PGN: What did you do for fun?

AH: Unfortunately as a kid, my favorite things to do were to watch TV and eat.

When I was 13 years old I weighed about

back together. It’s a moment I reflect on often. For my mother, I just remember her sense of humor. We’d watch TV together, probably things that were inappropriate for my age, but she’d laugh and then explain to me why it was funny. We’d go out and have conversations that made me feel very grown-up. She never treated me like some stupid kid.

PGN: When did you realize that you were gay?

AH: Probably when my father took me to see “Star Wars” when I was 7! I remember going to school and everyone talking about how cool Han Solo was shooting things or how pretty Princess Lea was and I was infatuated with Luke Skywalker. I didn’t know what it meant, but I realized that I saw things from a different perspective. A more cognitive awakening was my sophomore summer; that was when I realized that it wasn’t going away and that this is who I was.

PGN: That must have made it tough to pursue a military career.

AH: When I started in the military, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” hadn’t even been conceptualized yet. I remember sitting in one of my classes and filling out a simple demographic form and one of the questions was, “Are you a homosexual?” I was thinking, Oh my God, I can’t believe they’re asking this.

Why? The pragmatist in me realized that if I answered truthfully, I was going to have a very short military career. It was meaningful because at Valley Forge we had an honor code. To us, honor and integrity meant a lot, and it was the foundation of who you were as a leader, and now my military career was starting with a lie. It was a huge conflict for me but I knew deep inside even then, that at some point things were going to change and that soldiers were going to need people in good positions to stand up for them.

During DADT, which lasted about 18 years, were some of the toughest times. Sitting around in the chow hall with everyone talking about their girlfriends and wives, I had to be very conscientious about what I said. I had to be constantly aware about something that shouldn’t have been an issue. The hardest time was when I was deployed in Iraq between 2003-05. Bill and I were together and it was challenging to communicate.

We had a fake email address Photo: Suzi Nash in a woman’s name and on the rare occasions where we were able to talk on the phone, the conversations were very controlled and benign with often-changed pronouns. Obviously hearing from him was a wonderful thing but fraught with concern that someone might intercept an email or read a letter. It made an already-difficult environment exponentially more stressful. We’d only know each other a year-and-a-half and he stuck by me and was a wonderful support PAGE 36

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Theater & Arts BalletBoyz The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the British dance group through Oct. 25 at Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut St.; 215898-3900.

Detroit Philadelphia Theatre Company presents the Pulitzer Prizenominated story of the couple who befriends a transient couple, then moves into a vacant house next door, through Nov. 9 at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St.; 215-985-0420.

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Orchestra performs a Halloweenthemed program 11:30 a.m. Oct. 25 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215790-5847.

reading 5:30 p.m. at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.; 215923-2960.

Tommy Davidson The comedian performs Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

Hocus Pocus and Snowpiercer The two films are screened 8 p.m.

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Katha Pollitt The feminist author of “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights” hosts a reading 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; 215-567-4341.

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CRUE’S OUT FOREVER: The week leading up to Halloween brings glam rock titans Mötley Crüe on the final tour with shock-rock icon Alice Cooper opening the show, 8 p.m. Oct. 24-25 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-317-1000.

Newsies The smash-hit musical about a band of delivery boys runs Oct. 28-Nov. 2 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.; 215-7905847.

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Oct. 29 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215922-6888.

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The Pennsylvania Ballet performs through Oct. 26 at Kimmel’s Academy of Music, 250 S. Broad St.; 215-7905800.

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By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Out author, poet and civil engineer Richard Blanco has steadily been on the go ever since he was picked to read poetry at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama — when he became the first gay person, the first immigrant, the first Latino and the youngest person ever to be a U.S. inaugural poet.

Since the inauguration, Blanco has received an honorary doctorate from Macalester College CRY ME A PUDDLE: Puddles Pity Party, the band fronted and has used his poetry to help by the titular giant sad clown, sets a depressingly smooth heal the emotional wounds of the mood for Halloween, 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Trocadero Boston Marathon bombings, writTheatre, 1003 Arch St. For more information or tickets, ing “Boston Strong,” a poem he call 215-922-6888. performed at the Boston Garden Benefit Concert and at a Boston Red sinks its fangs into Rrazz Room, in Phoenixville; 610- Sox game at Fenway Park. He has Philly 9 p.m. Oct. The Ramada New 917-0223. also written and performed poems 29 at the Trocadero Hope, 6426 Lower for organizations like Freedom to Theatre, 1003 Arch York Road, New The Addams Marry, the Tech Awards of Silicon St.; 215-922-6888.

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Villains ents the musical “I haven’t been anywhere for The costume cabaBob Saget based on the classic more than two weeks at a time ret show, 8 p.m.-2 The comedian permorbidly funny TV for the last 18 months,” Blanco a.m. Oct. 31 at forms 9 p.m. Oct. show through Nov. said about his heightened profile L’Etage, 624 S. 25 the Borgata 2, 104 E. State St., since the inauguration. “I’ve just been on Bainbridge St.; Hotel, Casino & Media; 610-891the road doing readings and conversations 215-592-0626.

Spa Music Box, 0100. and workshops throughout the country. The 1 Borgata Way, inauguration, because it’s this unique mix Atlantic City, N.J.; Exalted Nature: of politics, pop and poetry, it has opened Outta 609-317-1000.

The Real and doors for poetry that are not the usual susTown Fantastic World pects, including commissioned poems for E.T. of Charles Boston Strong and the Tech Awards.”

The Beach Boys The classic sci-fi Burchfield Blanco is coming to the Free Library The group perfilm is screened The Brandywine of Philadelphia Oct. 27 to talk about his forms 8 p.m. Oct. 5 p.m. Oct. 25 at River Museum of new memoir, “The Prince of Los Cocuyos: 24 at the Borgata Colonial Theatre, Art presents an A Miami Childhood,” which explores his Hotel, Casino & 227 Bridge St., exhibition of vision- upbringing as the child of Cuban immiSpa Music Box, Phoenixville; 610ary landscapes by grants growing up in pre-South Beach 1 Borgata Way, 917-0223.

Burchfield (1893renaissance Miami and his coming to terms Atlantic City, N.J.; 1967), featuring with his artistic and sexual identities.

609-317-1000. more than 50 The Phantom One of the central figures in Blanco’s paintings borrowed childhood is his grandmother, whose views of the Opera Mötley Crüe and from important with Live on Blanco’s sensitive nature and artistic Alice Cooper public and private Theatre Organ leanings kept her on a near-constant crusade The rock bands collections across Accompaniment to “butch” him up. perform 8 p.m. the United States, The classic film “My grandmother is a big main character Oct. 24-25 at the through Nov. 16, is screened with in the book,” Blanco said. “She’s a very Borgata Hotel, 1 Hoffman’s Mill a live score 2 homophobic woman but she’s also very Casino & Spa Road, Chadds p.m. Oct. 26 at xenophobic. So anything that is culturally Event Center, Ford; www.brandy- odd is queer. Something like Fruit Loops Colonial Theatre, 1 Borgata Way, winemuseum.org. n is queer. In writing the book, what I found 227 Bridge St., Atlantic City, N.J.; was my grandmother’s homophobia wasn’t 609-317-1000. that ‘you’re evil, you’re going to hell’ kind of homophobia. It was more about tying Andrea into this idea of machismo. The crime isn’t Send notices at least one week in Marcovicci, “I’ll being gay, it’s being effeminate. So her advance to: Be Seeing You: charge in our life was always to butch me Out & About Listings, PGN, 505 S. The Love Songs up, sometimes in hurtful ways and in other Fourth St., Philadelphia, PA 19147 of WWll” fax: 215-925-6437; times often in humorous ways. So in that The cabaret singer or e-mail: listings@epgn.com. sense, and I don’t mean to speak for all performs 8 p.m.

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that it’s a grave-sin kind of thing. I think I’ve found that difference both in my own life and in my travels.”

Blanco said the reaction from readers to his story has been “surprising and delightfully unexpected.”

“Some people say, ‘You made me laugh and cry at the same time,’ which has always been my intention as a reflection of the tragic-comic sense of being Cuban,” he said.

“The book is meant to delight but as well bring s o m e gravitas to the whole idea to becoming and coming of age.

One of the things I wanted to do in the book is relay the psychology of the gay child and the gay adolescent and what is going on in our minds. It’s not a coming-out story, but in a way it is. It’s talking about all those thousands of little steps that lead to coming out. So we’ve been having conversations about gay youth these days and how we need to be there for them in terms of helping them along. Marriage equality has made great strides but there is still the youth that we need to remember and think about.

So I have been having conversations about that with people and hopefully the book can be used almost as a young-adult reader in that respect in high school.” n Richard Blanco hosts a discussion of his memoir, “The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood,” 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St. For more information, call 215-567-4341 or visit http://richard-blanco.com/.

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Catelli Duo: Suburban superiority

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com It’s almost Halloween, so you know what’s on everybody’s mind: Christmas and holiday shopping! Time to start planning when, where and how we will trample our fellow human beings to greedily horde and grab at the shiny retail carrots the stores dangle in front of us.

Why are we bringing this up in the foodreview section? Thanks for asking.

We stumbled upon an exceptional Italian restaurant nestled in the suburban retail eye of the upcoming holiday-shopping hurricane in the Voorhees Town Center in New Jersey. And since we know that a brisk day of amassing a trunk-load of holiday gifts can make one more than a bit peckish, we though we’d turn you on to a nice place to recharge and cool your heels instead of the food court.

Catelli Duo has the classy upscale look and feel that pretty much guarantees the place is going to be packed most evenings with happy-hour suits and affluent couples looking for fine dining. And the menu more than lives up to that image.

The crispy wrapped mozzarella ($6 for an “uno” portion or $12 for a “duo” portion) was bright and savory with prosciutto engulfing the cheese on a bed of chickpeas and fresh arugula. The lobster bisque ($9) was bold and complex, but pleasantly without the heavy creaminess that bisques usually have.

KrISPY KrEME BrEAD PuDDING

On the entrée side of the dinner menu, the seafood ravioli ($11 uno, $22 duo) has some sexy textures in the sauce and in the fillings of the gigantic specimens of stuffed pasta. Also, the restaurant isn’t shy about spicing the dish to suit your tastes.

We cannot stress enough how you have to save room for dessert. There are a lot of great things on Catelli Duo’s dessert menu, but none will knock your socks off harder than the Krispy Kreme bread pudding ($8).

Trust us when we say it is 10 times better than it sounds. Greater than the sum of its parts, the decadently fluffy and intoxicating bread pudding is drizzled in custard and bourbon crème anglaise and served up with

an exceptional vanilla gelato.

Whether it’s for shopping, cheaper gas or to visit friends, make up whatever excuse you need to leave the city and visit Catelli Duo. n

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If you happen to stop there for lunch, the menu features a daily frittata ($12), which on the day we visited was hearty and satisfying, loaded with crabmeat, spinach and mushrooms. The accompanying salad and fresh fruit were delightful as well.

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Q Puzzle Family affair Across

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system during that time. The most newsworthy moment after DADT was when I was selected for a battalion command, which is a huge honor, especially at the colonel level. There’s a big change-of-command ceremony and traditionally if your spouse is female they receive a bouquet of roses; if it’s a man he gets a bottle of champagne. Someone asked me what color roses my wife would like and I replied, “My husband’s going to get the champagne” and there was no big deal about it. When Bill and I got married six months into my command, my battalion got us a wedding gift.

He came to a lot of events after that as the commander’s husband and no one batted an eye. One of the men in my command made a point to say how proud he was. It’s wonderful to see how far we’ve come, on all fronts. When I was in Iraq, a good portion of my unit were females, some of the first women in direct combat zones. My female soldiers did the same jobs as the males, serving right beside them.

PGN: What was the most harrowing situation you faced?

AH: One time Bill and I were on a phone call. My compound started getting attacked and we lost connectivity. I couldn’t call him back for quite some time and he was naturally concerned because the last thing he heard was an explosion and then my phone went dead. Personally, it wasn’t worrisome — we’d been under attack every single day since I arrived — but it was scary for him to hear it. For me, there were a lot of interesting moments. We were doing a convoy in Northern Iraq and there was an event that forced us to get out of our vehicles and walk. There were thousands of people around, looking at us from store windows and houses and we had only about 20 people in our convoy. I was thinking, At any second now, someone’s going to try and kill us. I got really nervous and then realized that we had another 5 miles to

59. Sons of, in Hebrew 60. Clay Aiken, almost 61. Erected 62. Draws a bead 63. Land of Emma Donoghue 64. Makeup maker Lauder 65. Smart-ass output 66. Catch them in South Beach 67. Takes a load off

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1. Many go down on them 2. Kahlo portrayer 3. “The Seven Samurai” director Kurosawa 4. Playwright Jean 5. Communicated

manually 6. Three-men-in-atub event 7. Stick it in milk 8. Lorca’s guy 9. Passed (out) 10. “Desperate Housewives,” for one 11. Blood clots can cause them 12. Bonheur’s revolt 13. Package carrier 21. Leather community, e.g.

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walk, so I needed to get over it. On another occasion, I was working in an office inside the embassy when a rocket flew into the room right next to me. Fortunately, it didn’t detonate and no one was hurt, but it was wild to open the door and see this enormous rocket in the middle of the office! We were able to get everybody out and get the DOD to remove it, but it was shocking in that split-second moment as the rocket hit thinking, Oh man, we’re all going to die.

PGN: Do you think some of your fearlessness comes from having dealt with death and loss at such an early age?

AH: Hmmm, I don’t know that I’m fearless, I think I just process fear and danger in a different way. I think my parents taught me that I was loved and valued.

Even though my dad was a mechanic and a Marine, he had a very calm demeanor that I try to emulate. But perhaps being exposed to the volume of tragedy that I experienced at a young age and learning that I could live through it might have set me up to be more resilient. One last funny thing if I may … When George Bush got re-elected, I was in a room with 70-80 people. When they announced that he’d won, I was with a politically likeminded friend and I turned to him and said, “We’re going to be here forever.”

PGN: How do you cope when you’re fighting under questionable circumstances and asked to risk your life and perhaps take another life?

AH: For me it’s about protecting those under my command and trying to do the best for the people who we were in charge of there. I try not to think about the politics behind it. I’m a school teacher in my other career and many of my fellow teachers are — like myself — very Democratically bent and not very fond of war, especially that one. But they were really supportive of me and sent me letters and good wishes, which made it a little easier. Unlike when

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my brother-in-law served in Vietnam and people turned against him. They couldn’t seem to differentiate between the people and the politics.

PGN: Speaking of people, what’s a misconception that we have about Iraq?

AH: A lot of people seem to be convinced that the entire population are all terrorists.

And that’s not the case. Most of them are really wonderful and normal people who just want to raise a family and have a good job or read a good book, create art, do normal things. The media focuses on a very small but vocal minority who is focused on not just death and destruction, but discord and stagnance. Unfortunately, that’s all the greater Western community sees.

But I knew an awful lot of people who just wanted to live normal, peaceful lives.

PGN: Someone made the analogy that it’s like judging America if all they showed was the KKK. Happy thoughts … Tell me about forming your family.

AH: Bill and I always talked about adopting children. Being two men, we weren’t able to have our own though we tried very hard. [Laughs] We looked at a lot of different agencies, some of which were not open to LGBT couples, until we found one that fit. It was a long process, about three years, but we’re so happy to have this funny, spunky, confident little girl in our lives.

She’s a major blessing. And everyone says she’s a true combination of Bill and me: her mannerisms, her personality. She’s a bright star in our lives.

PGN: Something she did that would make a good YouTube video?

AH: She’s very dramatic and enamored with “Frozen” and we have her on tape with crown and cape doing the song with her own choreography. At the end, she throws open our shutters and does the ending like in the movie. She’s very serious about it and it makes me laugh.

PGN: As a music director, you must enjoy that. Do you play any instruments?

AH: I’m a percussionist. Between going for my doctorate and the military, I haven’t had much time, but I played for two years with the Philadelphia Freedom Band.

PGN: There are many of us who were against the war but supportive of the troops. Since we’re about to embark on another involvement, what would you suggest people do who want to help?

AH: Personally, I don’t care about memorial monuments or fancy ceremonies. Take care of my family. If I have to deploy again, make sure that Bill and Emma are not alone. If I perish in combat, take care of my husband and my child as if they were your family. Make sure my daughter goes to a good college. If I lose a limb, make sure I get the best possible care. Vote this November. Elect a Congress that will pay for all of the war, not just for more troops and equipment, which are important, but also budget to make sure we can take care of that serviceman or woman when they get home or if they never do. n To suggest a community member for Family Portrait, email portraits05@aol.com.

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Activism/Politics

ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) meets 6-9 p.m. Mondays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215-386-1981, www.actupphilly.org.

Delaware Valley Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State seeks activists and supporters of church-state separation. Holds monthly meetings and events; www.dvau.org.

Equality Pennsylvania holds a volunteer night 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month, 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 605; 215-731-1447, www.equalitypa.org.

Green Party of Philadelphia holds general meetings 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month, except August and December; 215-243-7103, www.gpop.org.

Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club meets seasonally; www.libertycity.org.

Arts

Library Book Club meets to discuss a new book 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at William Way. Men On Tap, an LGBT group that performs with choirs, organizations and at the Fringe Festival, rehearses 8 p.m.

Mondays at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St.; dale@magicalfantasies.com.

Philadelphia Freedom Band, an audition-free LGBT band that does concerts and parades, rehearses 7-9:30 p.m.

Mondays; philadelphiafreedomband.com.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus rehearses 7-10 p.m.

Wednesdays; 215-731-9230, auditions@pgmc.org.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Opera Club meets to share and listen to recordings 6:30 p.m. the last Saturday of the month; 215-732-7898.

Philadelphia Voices of Pride, Philadelphia’s first mixed LGBT chorus, rehearses 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way; www.pvop.org.

Queer Writer’s Collective workshop and discussion group meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Saturday of the month at William Way. Reading Queerly, open to all women and genderqueer/ trans people, meets 6:45 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.

Recreation

Gay Bridge Club non-beginners group meets Monday 2-5 p.m. at William Way; reservations required. Call 215732-2220.

Gay-friendly Scrabble Club meets 5:30-10:30 p.m. at Abner’s Steaks, 38th and Chester streets; 215-382-0789.

Humboldt Society: Lesbian and Gay Naturalists meets 7:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at William Way; 215-985-1456, www.humboldtsociety.org.

Independence Squares LGBT square-dance club, modern Western square dancing hosts an open house and Tuesday classes in the fall at Lutheran Church, 2111 Sansom St.; philadances@gmail.com, www.independencesquares.org.

Male Oenophile Group forming to discuss, appreciate and taste various wines. Will meet once a month to investigate the nuances and glories of the fermented grape; 267-2306750.

Mornings OUT LGBT Senior Social activities for senior gay men are held 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way. PhilaVentures, Philadelphia’s LGBT outdoor group, meets for hikes in Wissahickon Valley and Valley Forge Park; philaventures.org.

Sports

Brandywine Women’s Rugby Club meets for practice at p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Greenfield Park, West Chester; www.brandywinerugby.org.

City of Brotherly Love Softball League serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area with games on Sundays, beginning in April, at the Dairy and Edgeley Fields in Fairmount Park; www.cblsl.org.

Frontrunners running club meets 9:30 a.m. Saturdays for a run and brunch at Lloyd Hall, No. 1 Boathouse Row; www.philadelphiafrontrunners.org.

Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club, open to LGBT and allies, practices 8-10 p.m. Mondays and 2-4 p.m.

Saturdays; www.falcons-soccer.org.

Philadelphia Fins Swim Team, open to male and female swimmers, meets 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Friends Select School and 10:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays; www.philadelphia-fins.org.

Philadelphia Gay Bowling League meets 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays September-April at Brunswick Zone, 1328 Delsea Drive, Deptford, N.J.; 856-889-1434, www.

philagaybowling.com.

Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League plays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at FDR Park; www.phillyflagfootball.com Philadelphia Gryphons Rugby Football Club, open to players of all skill levels, meets 7:45 p.m. Thursdays at Columbus Square Park, 1200 Wharton St.; 215-913-7531, philadelphiagryphons.org, becomeagryphon@gmail.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Belles women’s semi-pro full-tackle football league holds fall tryouts; phillybelles.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Tennis Association plays yearround, all skill levels welcome; philadelphialibertytennis. com.

Philadelphia Firebirds women’s football team seeks players; www.philadelphiafirebirds.com.

Philadelphia Women’s Baseball League seeks players, all skill levels and ages. Practice is 7 p.m. Thursdays at Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 17th and Fitzwater streets, with games at 2:30 p.m. Sundays; 215-991-5995 (day), 301-919-1194 (evening), phillywomensbaseball.com.

Philly Gay Hockey Association Philadelphia Phury seeks players; 917-656-1936, phury@gayhockey.org.

Philly QCycle LGBT bicycling club promotes organized recreational riding for all levels in the Greater Philadelphia region; contact the organization via Facebook.

Rainbow Riders of the Delaware Valley motorcycle club meets regularly; 215-836-0440, www.groups.yahoo.com/ group/rainbowridersdv/.

Rainbow Rollers gay and lesbian bowling league meets 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Boulevard Lanes in Northeast Philadelphia; rainbowrollers.com.

Spartan Wrestling Club gay wrestling team meets 6:30-9 p.m. Mondays at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.; 215-732-4545, www.phillyspartans.com.

Etc.

AIDS Law Project provides free legal assistance to people with HIV/AIDS and sponsors free monthly seminars on work and housing at 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 600; 215587-9377, www.aidslawpa.org.

BiUnity, Philadelphia-area social and support network for bisexuals, their family members and friends; http://biunity. org.

Delaware Valley Pink Pistols, for LGBT people dedicated to legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense, meets 2 p.m. the third Saturday of the month at Classic Indoor Range, 1310 Industrial Blvd., Southampton; 610-879-2364; www.pinkpistols.org.

Delaware Pride holds planning meetings 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at the United Church of Christ, 300 Main St., Newark; 302-265-3020, delawarepride.org.

Haverford College’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance holds open meetings 10-11 p.m. Mondays during the school year in the lounge in Jones Basement at Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave.; 610-896-4938.

Men and Women for Human Excellence support group meets from noon-2 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of the month at 26th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; 267-2733513, cmoore8300@yahoo.com.

Long Yang Club Philadelphia, social organization for gay Asians and their friends, holds monthly socials; www. longyangclub.org/philadelphia.

Our Night Out, a casual social networking party of LGBT professionals, friends and colleagues, meets in a different Philadelphia hot spot each month. To receive monthly event invitations, email OurNightOutPhilly@gmail.com; more information on Facebook.

Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Advice offered 5-8 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month; 215-238-6333.

Philadelphia Prime Timers club for mature gay and bisexual men and their admirers meets regularly; primetimersofphiladelphia@yahoo.com.

Philadelphians MC Club, for leather men and women, meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at The Pit at The Bike Stop, 201 S. Quince St.; philadelphiansmc.org.

Rainbow Amateur Radio Association ARRL-affiliated, weekly HF nets, quarterly newsletter; www.rara.org.

Silver Foxes, a social and educational group for gays and lesbians 50 and older, meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Sunday of the month at William Way; 215-732-2220.

SNJ Queers meets monthly for queer/queer-friendly folks in South Jersey to mix and mingle; 856-375-3708, wmf69@comast.net.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331; atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday. See the Youth section for more events.

■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044; center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m.

Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088 ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext.

221 ■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330 ■ District Attorney LGBT Liaison:Helen “Nellie” Fitzpatrick,

■ Rainbow Room — Bucks County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning and Allies Youth Center 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays: Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext. 9065 rainbowroom@ppbucks.org.

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220; www.waygay.org.

Hours: 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m.

Monday through Friday Library hours: noon-9 p.m.

Monday-Thursday; noon-3 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday. Volunteers: New Orientation: First Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Key numbers 215-686-9980, helen.fitzpatrick@ phila.gov ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org ■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378 ■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mayor’s Director of LGBT Affairs: Gloria Casarez, 215-6862194; Gloria.Casarez@phila.gov; Fax: 215-686-2555

■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670 ■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 1-877-pride-2000 ■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288

■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658

■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537

■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833

■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m.

Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

Health

Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215763-8870.

ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088; www.actionaids.org.

AIDS Services In Asian Communities Provides HIV-related services to Asians and Pacific Islanders at 1711 S. Broad St.; 215-629-2300; www.asiac.org.

Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871; www.galaei. org. Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appoint-

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia GALLOP holds board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; GALLOP also provides a free referral service; 215-627-9090; www.galloplaw. org.

■ Greater Philadelphia Professional Network Networking group for area business professionals, self-employed and business owners meets monthly in a different location throughout the city, invites speakers on various topics, partners with other nonprofits and maintains a website where everyone is invited to sign up for email notices for activities and

ment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215-685-1821.

HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing available 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite 108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077.

Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing; HIV/AIDS care and treatment, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652; www.mazzonicenter.org.

Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658.

Washington West Project Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-noon Friday; 1-5 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups events; www.gppn.org; 215-9223377.

■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www. nlgja.org/philly; philly@nlgja.org.

■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly businesses and professionals. Visit www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com for information about events, programs and membership; 215-557-0190; 1717 Arch St., Suite 3370.

■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus A regional organization dedicated to promoting gay and lesbian tourism to the Greater Philadelphia region holds meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; P.O. Box 58143, Philadelphia, PA 19102; www. philadelphiagaytourism.com; 215-840-2039.

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